Yanchang

See also: yáncháng and yǎnchàng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 延長／延长 (Yáncháng).

Proper noun

Yanchang

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • 2014 September, Zhen, Nahui; Bojie Fu; Yihe Lü; Zhenmin Zheng, “Changes of livelihood due to land use shifts: A case study of Yanchang County in the Loess Plateau of China”, in Land Use Policy‎, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire surveys, and satellite imagery from 1990, 2000, and 2008. We found that dramatic land use changes have occurred in Yanchang County.

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