Yunyang

• (from Wade–Giles) Yün-yang

From Mandarin 鄖陽／郧阳 (Yúnyáng).

Yunyang

1. A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
   • [1995, Thompson, Roger R., “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200:

     Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.]

From Mandarin 雲陽／云阳 (Yúnyáng).

Yunyang

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China‎, volume II, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 120:

     Styan's Pucrasia occurs in the vicinity of the Yangtsze River from near Kui Chou in Hupeh, westward (at least) as far as Yunyang Hsien, in eastern Szechuan.[...]Near Yunyang Hsien I saw several others in more open rocky ground.

   • 1975 March 27, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East‎, →OCLC, page 16:

     SZECHWAN The 17th March 'Szechwan Daily' published a report and editorial note about how cadres of (Shachu) commune in Yunyang County had persisted in participation in manual labour so as to "restrict bourgeois rights and […]

   • 1999 March 18, Eckholm, Erik, “Rare Expose in China Warns Of Unrest Over Dam Project”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World‎:

     The journal article features a detailed case study of Yunyang County, near Chongqing, where 120,000 of an impoverished population of 1.24 million must be moved.
     To fight erosion and flooding, the Government has declared that steep slopes should not be cultivated. But in Yunyang County, the article notes, nearly half the existing farms are on illegally steep slopes, and every patch of decent farmland is already in use.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3541, column 2