Xishuangbanna

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsishuangpanna, Hsi-shuang-pan-na

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 西雙版納／西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnnà), from Lü ᧑᧒ᦗᧃᦓᦱ (12pannaa) or ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂᦗᧃᦓᦱ (ṡiibṡoangpannaa).

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃiːʃwɑŋbɑnˈnɑː/

Xishuangbanna

1. An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China.
   • 1980 [1978], Bredsdorff, Jan, Alice Roughton, transl., Revolution tur/retur [To China and Back]‎, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 164-165:

     After a drive of nearly ten hours, through small villages of thatched houses built on stilts, we stop on the last hairpin bend halfway down the mountain. Below, brilliant green and glistening wet, lies Xishuangbanna, in China’s southernmost valley.

   • 2021 August 9, Stanway, David, “China's wild elephants head to safety after long trek”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2021:

     A herd then consisting of 16 elephants left their home in Xishuangbanna 300 km further south in March last year and eventually settled in a protected habitat in Puer.

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