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  2. Zhangye National Geopark - Wikipedia

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    It covers 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi). The site became a quasi-national geopark on 23 April 2012 (provisional name: Zhangye Danxia Geopark). It was formally designated as "Zhangye National Geopark" by the Ministry of Land and Resources on 16 June 2016, after it passed the on-site acceptance test.

  3. File:Linze, Zhangye, Gansu, China - panoramio (4).jpg

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    This image, which was originally posted to Panoramio, ... Badlands of the Zhangye National Geopark, Linze, Zhangye, Gansu, China. Items portrayed in this file

  4. Category:Geoparks in China - Wikipedia

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    Zhangjiajie National Forest Park; Zhangye National Geopark; Ziyuan National Geopark This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 08:02 (UTC). Text is ...

  5. Zhangye - Wikipedia

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    Zhangye Commandery was established by Western Han in 111 BC, with the seat at the site of modern Wuwei, Gansu. Etymology of Zhangye is unclear. A popular theory interprets the name Zhangye as "Extending Arm", excerpted from a phrase "to extend the arm of the country through to the Western Realm" (张国臂掖,以通西域) documented in Han ...

  6. Category:Zhangye - Wikipedia

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    Zhangye National Geopark This page was last edited on 28 March 2018, at 18:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. UNESCO Global Geoparks - Wikipedia

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    The Global Geoparks Network (GGN) (also known as the Global Network of National Geoparks) is UNESCO assisted network established in 1998. Managed under the body's Ecological and Earth Sciences Division, the GGN seeks the promotion and conservation of the planet's geological heritage, as well as encourages the sustainable research and development by the concerned communities.

  8. Danxia landform - Wikipedia

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    Over millions of years the steep cliffs that can be seen today, exposed by faults, were formed through weathering and erosion. This geology can be seen at Danxiashan Geopark in China, where there is about 290 square kilometers of streams, forest and towering Danxian rock formations. [6]

  9. Geology of China - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from upper left: Li River karst, Mount Everest's north face, loess landscape in Datong and Zhangye National Geopark. The geology of China (or the geological structure of the People's Republic of China ) consists of three Precambrian cratons surrounded by a number of orogenic belts .