Yumen

See also: yùmén

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 玉門玉门 (Yùmén).

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Yumen

  1. A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
    • 1958, Wang, Chun-heng, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 202:
      Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.
    • 1973, Alley, Rewi, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
      After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.

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