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Prefecture-level city in Gansu, China

Jiayuguan

Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census.

Jiayuguan
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Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census. Compared with the 231,853 people in the sixth national census in 2010, there was an increase of 80,810 people, with an average annual increase of 3.04%. Its built-up area was home to 768,274 inhabitants made of Jiayuguan City and Suzhou urban district of Jiuquan City now being conurbated.

It is named after the nearby Jiayu Pass, the largest and most intact pass of the Great Wall of China.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Jiayuguan

Airports
Jiayuguan (JGN), 11 km · Dunhuang Mogao (DNH), 299 km
Stations
Jiayuguan South railway station, 6.5 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Jiayuguan

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 Jiayuguan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextJuly 1 Glacier (Qiyi Glacier) - enormous 500 meter glacier, day trip tours available, renting a taxi costs about ¥500 (2009) for the 130 km trip.

From Wikivoyage: Jiayuguan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZiroIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,367 km
  2. 02
    Tiger Leaping Gorge and QiaotouCN

    10 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,404 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,479 km
  4. 04
    MajuliIN

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,490 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,626 km

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Next door to Jiayuguan

Jiayuguan is 20 km from Jiuquan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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