--- title: "Jiayuguan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Jiayuguan, China: Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiayuguan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiayuguan.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Jiayuguan%2C_China_Bebop_Drone_2015-09-17T153652%2B0000_42DA9A.jpg" --- 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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Jiayuguan%2C_China_Bebop_Drone_2015-09-17T153652%2B0000_42DA9A.jpg) Jiayuguan · Wikimedia Commons The place 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiayuguan_City), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Jiayuguan **Airports:** Jiayuguan (JGN), 11 km · Dunhuang Mogao (DNH), 299 km\ **Stations:** Jiayuguan South railway station, 6.5 km\ - Dunhuang → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dunhuang-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dunhuang&to=Jiayuguan) - Haidong (Huzhu Tu Autonomous County) → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/haidong-huzhu-tu-autonomous-county-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Haidong+%28Huzhu+Tu+Autonomous+County%29&to=Jiayuguan) - Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lanzhou-yongdeng-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lanzhou+%28Yongdeng%29&to=Jiayuguan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jiayuguan) Not yet researched ## 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 next July 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Ziro](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ziro) IN 7 ways of moving, 24 sources 1,367 km 2. [Tiger Leaping Gorge and Qiaotou](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tiger-leaping-gorge) CN 10 ways of moving, 22 sources 1,404 km 3. [Tawang](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tawang) IN 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 1,479 km 4. [Majuli](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/majuli) IN 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 1,490 km 5. [Viswema](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/viswema) IN 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 1,626 km If you know how people move in Jiayuguan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cjiayuguan&title=Jiayuguan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fjiayuguan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Jiayuguan Jiayuguan is 20 km from [Jiuquan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiuquan), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Jiayuguan City](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiayuguan-city) prefecture-level city in Gansu, China 4.2 km - [Xiongguan District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/xiongguan-district) District in China 4.4 km - [Yuquan, Jiayuguan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yuquan-jiayuguan) town in Gansu, People's Republic of China 6.3 km [The place page for Jiayuguan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/jiayuguan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on China](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CN) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiayuguan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt