#language en = Lanzhou = '''Lanzhou''' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters|simplified Chinese]]: 兰州; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters|traditional Chinese]]: 蘭州; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin|pinyin]]: ''Lánzhōu''; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Giles|Wade-Giles]]: Lan-chou; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization|Postal map spelling]]: Lanchow) is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefecture-level_city|prefecture-level city]] and capital of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu|Gansu]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_China|province]] in northwestern [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China|China]]. Lanzhou is situated on the upper course of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River|Yellow River]], where the river emerges from the mountains. It has been a center since early times, being at the southern end of the route leading via the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexi_Corridor|Hexi Corridor]] across [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia|Central Asia]]. It also commands the approaches to the ancient capital area of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'an|Chang'an]] (modern [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi'an|Xi'an]]) in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi|Shaanxi]] province from both the west and the northwest, as well as from the area of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai_Lake|Qinghai Lake]] via the upper waters of the Yellow River and its tributaries. == Teams == Please add links to your team(s) name here: * [[2010/Asia/China/Lanzhou/Lzuoss|The open soure community of Lanzhou University]] (The idea of adding another team page is that there many be more than one team in a region/city) == Create a new Team page: == <> In all cases you need to keep the {{{CategoryRegion}}} to allow your page/region to be listed! ---- CategoryRegion