Landscape of China's Gansu Province

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Gansu Province, in northwestern China, is about the same size as California, with a population of about 26 million people. Most of its inhabitants are Han Chinese, with some ethnic Hui and Tibetans.

Gansu’s diverse landscapes include parts of the Gobi Desert, the Yellow River, numerous mountain formations, and remnants of the Silk Road and the Great Wall of China.

The mostly arid lands range in elevation from about 3,000 feet above sea level to mountains more than 19,000 feet tall. Gathered here are recent images from across China’s Gansu Province.

Landforms at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Zhangye City, northwest China's Gansu Province, on July 7, 2014.

Tourists climb the Singing Sand dunes near the Crescent Moon Spring on July 20, 2010, in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, China.

Flowering rapeseed plants blossom in a field in Minle, Gansu, China.

A Chinese rocket takes off with the Venezuelan earth observation satellite Miranda from the remote Gobi Desert in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on September 29, 2012.

The Maijishan Grottoes in the city of Tianshui, on August 12, 2015.

A Closer view of the Maijishan Grottoes on August 12, 2015.

A train speeds through a gap in a section of the Great Wall of China, past Jiayuguan Pass, in front of the snow-covered Qilian Mountains in Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, on April 28, 2007.

Monks gather to pray at the Labrang Monastery prior to Tibetan New Year in Xiahe County, Gansu Province, on February 21, 2012.

Chinese workers harvest dried salt in Yanchi Village, Gaotai County, Gansu Province, on August 24, 2015.

A solar eclipse, seen above visitors at the Jiayuguan Fort on the Great Wall of China in the town of Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, on August 1, 2008.

A farmer walks past a terrace of codonopsis pilosula, a traditional Chinese medicine also known as dang shen, in Min County, Gansu Province, on May 31, 2011.

Motorboats moored at the Liujiaxia Reservoir, on the Yellow River, near the Bingling Si caves, in November of 2006.

Yueyaquan, or Crescent Lake, in Dunhuang, on May 12, 2013.

Visitors walk on the Mingsha sand dunes on the outskirts of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, on April 29, 2007.

A worker inspects solar panels at a solar farm in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, on September 16, 2013.

The Danxia landform in the Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park in Zhangye, Gansu Province, on October 19, 2015.

Visitors walk outside the Jiayuguan Pass Town in Jiayuguan, on April 28, 2007.

A sandstorm hits the Shandan Horse Ranch in Zhangye, Gansu Province, on March 5, 2013.

A herder drives her sheep through a gate of the Yongtai Ancient City in Jingtai County, Gansu Province, on June 20, 2015.

Terraced fields in Dingxi, Gansu Province, on July 4, 2014.

Ethnic Tibetan women pray around the Labrang Monastery ahead of the Tibetan New Year in Xiahe County, Gansu Province, on February 21, 2012.

Tibetan monks at the Labrang monastery in Xiahe, Gansu Province, on February 22, 2009.

An aerial view shows people traveling along a road inside the Danxia National Geological Park, in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China, on July 5, 2015.