Guangyuan
See also: guāngyuán
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Kuang-yüan
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣元／广元 (Guǎngyuán).
Proper noun
Guangyuan
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 2008 May 16, Broad, William J., “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2008, Asia Pacific:
- China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3
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