Jiuquan
Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China.
Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is more than 600 km (370 mi) wide from east to west, occupying 191,342 km2 (73,878 sq mi), although its built-up area is mostly located in its Suzhou District.
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Worth seeing in and around Jiuquan
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Silk Route Museum
The Silk Route Museum is located in Jiuquan, Gansu Province along the Silk Road, a trading route connecting Rome to China, used by Marco Polo. It is also built over the tomb of the Xiliang King in Gansu Province.
6.7 km · museum in Jiuquan, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Closed to foreigners.
- 02Drum and Bell Tower
- 03Jiuquan Museum
From Wikivoyage: Jiuquan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Guazhou melons (瓜州蜜瓜). A type of sweet melon grown mainly in Jiuquan's Guazhou County.
From Wikivoyage: Jiuquan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Jiuquan
- Airports
- Jiayuguan (JGN), 19 km
- Dunhuang → Jiuquan330 km · quickest by road, 5h 16m · ¥155–205
- Haidong (Huzhu Tu Autonomous County) → Jiuquan456 km · quickest by air, 7h 54m · ¥570–880
- Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Jiuquan532 km · quickest by air, 6h 27m · ¥630–980
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Jiuquan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Jiuquan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Jiuquan
- Suzhou Districtdistrict of Jiuquan, Gansu, China (formerly a separate city)1.6 km