Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Gansu Corridor (Hexi Corridor)
We drove from the Ili valley through the whole of Dzungaria, took the train out of Sinkiang, and continued down the Kansu corridor by car all the way to the Shensi border.
1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Hening, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32 more examples
Between Chilan Mountain in the south and Holi Mountain in the north—between Tibet and Mongolia—lies the Kansu corridor, an elongated valley about one thousand miles in length.
1967, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Geography and Military Strategy”, in China: Ageless Land and Countless People, D. Van Nostrand Company, →OCLC, page 50But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.
2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172
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