Guizhou
See also: Guìzhōu
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴州／贵州 (Guìzhōu).
Proper noun
Guizhou
- A province in southwestern China. Capital: Guiyang.
- 2015 June 12, Wong, Edward, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-13, Asia Pacific:
- The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
- 2016 September 13, Tharoor, Ishaan, “The incredible sight of China’s latest record-breaking bridge”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2016, WorldViews:
- Over the weekend, engineers in China's mountainous southwestern Guizhou province linked the two ends of a bridge spanning a rocky gorge. The completion of the Beipanjiang bridge marks yet another infrastructure record in China — the world's "highest" bridge, sitting 1,854 feet above the river below.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guizhou.
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Descendants
- Latin: guizhouensis
Translations
province of China
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1
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