Which province is Hexi Corridor located in?

Hexi Corridor is located in Gansu Province.

Hexi Corridor, referred to as "Hexi Corridor" for short, is located in the west of China, the northwest of Gansu Province, the west of the Yellow River, and between Qilian Mountain and Badain Jaran Desert. It is a long and narrow belt with northwest-southeast trend.

Because it is located in the west of the Yellow River and looks like a corridor, it is named Hexi Corridor. It is about 1000 km long from east to west, nearly 200 km wide from north to south, and only a few kilometers narrow. It mainly involves Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan and other cities in Gansu Province. The central city of Hexi Corridor is Wuwei City.

Hexi Corridor has been the traffic artery connecting the Central Plains and the western regions since ancient times, and it is the core area where many ethnic groups meet and merge constantly, leaving a large number of cultural heritage and cultural tourism resources available.

Value meaning

Due to the unique channel position of Hexi Corridor and the important place where multi-ethnic groups constantly conflict and merge, the Hexi Corridor region has preserved a unique multi-ethnic cultural system here so far, mainly including the Chinese cultural system dominated by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the Islamic cultural system represented by Hui and Kazak, and the Tibetan Buddhist cultural system composed of Tibetans, Mongolians and Yugurs.

Therefore, Hexi Corridor has become a treasure house to experience the rich and colorful multi-culture of the Chinese nation and understand the cultural differences of different nationalities. At the same time, it is also a living historical textbook to understand the formation, integration and development of the Chinese nation, and it has become a region to cultivate the cultural identity of the Chinese nation.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hexi Corridor