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Which province does Jiayuguan belong to?

Jiayuguan belongs to Gansu Province

Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province. It is located in the northwest of Gansu Province, in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, and borders Suzhou District, Jiuquan City, an important town in Hexi, to the east. It is 776 kilometers away from Lanzhou, the provincial capital; it is connected to Yumen City, Jiuquan City, to the west, and 650 kilometers to Hami, Xinjiang; it leans on the Qilian Mountains to the south and borders Sunan Yugur Autonomous County of Zhangye City; to the north, it is connected to the Black Mountains and Jinta County of Jiuquan City, and in the middle is the Jiuquan Oasis West Rim.

Jiayuguan City is the western end of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. It is an emerging modern industrial and tourism regional center city that emerged due to the construction of the "Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company", a key project of the National "First Five-Year Plan" in 1958. It is known as "the most powerful pass in the world" and "the key to the border". Jiayuguan City is one of the four prefecture-level cities in China that does not have municipal districts.