Yinchuan

• (postal romanization) Yinchwan
• (also from Wade–Giles) Yin-ch'uan

From Mandarin 銀川／银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹[1], reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Yinchuan

1. The capital city of Ningxia, China [from 20th c.]
   • 1949 September 26 [September 25, 1949], “NATIONALISTS REVOLT”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXVII, number 228, Bombay, →OCLC, Stop Press, page 5, column 1:

     Peiping radio claimed tonight that Communists occupied Yinchuan, capital of Ninghsia Province in Central China two days ago.

   • 1954 February [January 1954], “China's Industrial Growth”, in Economic Digest‎, volume VII, number 2, London: Economic Research Council, →OCLC, pages 87-88:

     All the bigger towns in this vast area are to have new power stations. Yinchuan and Bayenhot in Ningsia province, Sining in Chinghai, Tienshui, Tunhchuan and Paochi in Shensi, and Tihua in Sinkiang have all been mentioned in Press reports.
     At Yinchuan factories for machinery, woollen textiles and chemicals have been started, and two new texile mills are planned in the cotton-growing district of Kuanchung, in Shensi.

   • 1956 October, Liu, Grace, “A Train Trip in China”, in New World Review‎, volume 24, number 10, New York: S.R.T. Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

     On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest.

   • 1964, Jen Yu-ti (任育地), A Concise Geography of China (中国地理概述)‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 201:

     Yinchuan, capital of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, lies in the centre of the Ningsia Plain.

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• Ningxia

• “Yinchuan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Yinchuan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Yinchuan at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Yinchuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Yinchuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.