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Prefecture-level city in Gansu, People's Republic of China

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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Silk 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

    Closed to foreigners.

  2. 02
    Drum and Bell Tower
  3. 03
    Jiuquan Museum

From Wikivoyage: Jiuquan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

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.

Go there

Getting to Jiuquan

Airports
Jiayuguan (JGN), 19 km
  • Dunhuang → Jiuquan
    330 km · quickest by road, 5h 16m · ¥155–205
  • Haidong (Huzhu Tu Autonomous County) → Jiuquan
    456 km · quickest by air, 7h 54m · ¥570–880
  • Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Jiuquan
    532 km · quickest by air, 6h 27m · ¥630–980
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Not yet researched

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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If you know how people move in Jiuquan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Jiuquan

  • Suzhou Districtdistrict of Jiuquan, Gansu, China (formerly a separate city)1.6 km