Zhangye Danxia National Geopark protects an area of Danxia landform in Gansu Province, northwestern China, renowned for sandstone and siltstone hills banded in vivid layers of red, orange, yellow and green produced by mineral deposition over millions of years and later exposed by tectonic uplift and erosion. Formally protected and developed for visitation in the early twenty-first century, the geopark showcases a striking example of Danxia topography, a landform type named for and first studied in southern China, and it draws visitors and researchers studying red-bed geomorphology. It is administered by Chinese national and provincial geopark authorities.
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Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International Designation Partially Attested
Established Year2005 marks the provincial geopark designation; the site was not formally named Zhangye National Geopark by the Ministry of Land and Resources until 16 June 2016. Designation Category Area (sq km) Governing BodyMinistry of Land and Resources 1 Sources
1. Zhangye National Geopark - Wikipedia
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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.
Infobox: Established
27 December 2005 (as provincial geopark)
Lead paragraph, area sentence
It covers 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi).
Source text, realm: terrestrial
Zhangye National Geopark (simplified Chinese: 张掖国家地质公园; traditional Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園; pinyin: Zhāngyè Guójiā Dìzhìgōngyuán) is located in Sunan and Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China.
Governing body field (existing citation)
Ministry of Land and Resources
wikipedia lead/infobox, international-designation unesco-global-geopark
It became a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2019.
Part Of: China, Lead paragraph
Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China.
On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names China; continent follows from the atlas record for China
Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China
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