Yuanqu
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 垣曲.
Proper noun
Yuanqu
- A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
- [1963 June 24, Yang, Chung-chien, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China, →OCLC, page 123:
- In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).]
- 2007 July 31, “China floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, Technology:
- Rescuers prepare to rescue villagers who are stranded in a flooding river in Yuanqu county, north China's Shanxi province July 30, 2007.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuanqu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3536, column 3
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