Jiuzhaigou
See also: Jiǔzhàigōu
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Chiu-chai-kou
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝/九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).
Proper noun
Jiuzhaigou
- A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
- 1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
- Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.
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- A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- 2017 August 8, Blanchard, Ben; Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 August 2017, Environment:
- Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.
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