Jiayuguan City
Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census.
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.
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Worth seeing in and around Jiayuguan City
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.
- 01Jiayuguan
Jiayu Pass or is the first frontier fortress at the west end of the Ming dynasty Great Wall, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.
6.9 km · mountain pass in China · Wikipedia
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Getting to Jiayuguan City
- Airports
- Jiayuguan (JGN), 11 km · Dunhuang Mogao (DNH), 299 km
- Stations
- Jiayuguan South railway station, 6.5 km
- Dunhuang → Jiayuguan CityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Haidong (Huzhu Tu Autonomous County) → Jiayuguan CityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Jiayuguan CityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Jiayuguan City
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 City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Jiayuguan City
Jiayuguan City is 20 km from Jiuquan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Xiongguan DistrictDistrict in China4.4 km
- Yuquan, Jiayuguantown in Gansu, People's Republic of China6.3 km