Qin Mountains

Partial calque of Mandarin 秦嶺／秦岭 (Qínlǐng)

Qin Mountains

1. A major east-west mountain range in southern Shaanxi province, China.
   • 1996, Laider, Liz; Keith Laidler, “Eastern Plains and Yangtze Wetlands”, in China's Threatened Wildlife‎, Blandford, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115:

     The Qin Mountains support an especially rich variety of plant and animal life. This mountain range bisects China east to west and is the watershed for the Yellow River (Huang He) to the north and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the south.

   • 2014 May 21, Kemp, John, “COLUMN-For polluted China, gas is a matter of life or death: Kemp”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on May 21, 2014, Energy‎:

     To determine which cities qualified for free heating, planners employed the traditional division between northern and southern China that runs along the line of the Qin Mountains and Huai River.
     The Huai-Qinling line is an arbitrary boundary dating to imperial times, though it corresponds roughly to the 33rd parallel of latitude and the zero degrees Celsius isotherm in January.

• Qinling Mountains