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Gannan Xiahe Airport

airport in Gansu, People's Republic of China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3274816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gannan Xiahe Airport (IATA: GXH, ICAO: ZLXH) is an airport in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. It is located above Amuquhu Town (Amqog) in Xiahe County, 72 kilometres (45 mi) from the county seat and 56 km (35 mi) from Hezuo, the capital of Gannan Prefecture. Construction started in September 2010 with a total investment of 722 million yuan, and the airport was opened on 19 August 2013.

Facilities

The airport has a 3,200-meter runway and a 3,000-square-meter terminal building. It is projected to handle 140,000 passengers annually by 2020.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gannan Xiahe Airport” as airport in Gansu, People's Republic of China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gannan, Xiahe and Airport.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2013, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gannan, Xiahe and Airport providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gannan Xiahe Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Gansu, People's Republic of China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3274816. Authority coordinates are 34.820, 102.620. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2013 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gannan Xiahe Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.