Fugu

• (from Wade–Giles) Fu-ku

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 府谷 (Fǔgǔ).

Fugu

1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1936 September, P'an, C. H., Older Mesozoic Plants from North Shensi‎, Nanking: Geological Survey of China, →OCLC, page 6:

     Recently Dr. Sze¹ has described many species from Shihpanwan, 110 li west of Fuku Hsien (府谷縣), North Shensi.]

   • 2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in Xiu Yuezhen (修月祯), editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng]‎, Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256-257:

     Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi^{[sic – meaning Shaanxi]} Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.

   • 2016 October 24, Buckley, Chris, “Explosion Batters Neighborhood in China, Killing 14 and Wounding Nearly 150”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, Asia Pacific‎:

     The explosion occurred in the afternoon in Xinmin, a town in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, and by early Tuesday rescuers had counted 147 wounded, 113 of whom had been hospitalized, according to Xinhua, the main state news agency.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fugu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1291, column 3