Zhongwei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中衛／中卫 (Zhōngwèi).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋˈweɪ/

Zhongwei

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in Free China Weekly (自由中國週報)‎, volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

     The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
     Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]

   • 1980 March, Gore, Rick, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:

     WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.

   • 1982, The Desert Realm‎, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.

   • 2006 July 3, Lague, David, “China devotes funds to impoverished west - Business - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2023, International Business:

     The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2