KAN-SUH

kan-suh, a north-western province of china, bounded n. by mongolia, e. by shen-si, s. by szech'uen, w. by tibet and n.w. by turkestan. the boundary on the n. remains undefined, but the province may be said to occupy the territory lying between 32 deg. 30'40 deg. n., and 108 deg. and 98 deg. 20' e., and to contain about 260,000 sq. m. the population is estimated at 9,800,000. western kan-suh is mountainous, and largely a wilderness of sand and snow, but east of the hwang-ho the country is cultivated. the principal river is the hwang-ho, and in the mountains to the south of lan-chow fu rises the wei-ho, which traverses shen-si and flows into the hwang-ho at tung-kwan. the chief products of kan-suh are cloth, horse hides, a kind of curd like butter which is known by the mongols under the name of _wuta_, musk, plums, onions, dates, sweet melons and medicines. (see china.)