Danjiangkou
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 丹江口 (Dānjiāngkǒu).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Danjiangkou
- A county-level city in Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 2009 February 27, Chris Buckley, “China's water scheme opens torrent of discontent”, in Megan Goldin, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 10 June 2022, World News[2]:
- The government has said 330,000 residents near Danjiangkou must move over 5 years from June, and it has promised them homes and farms elsewhere in Henan and Hubei provinces. The reservoir lies between these provinces, catching the Han and Dan Rivers.
Translations
[edit]county-level city in central China
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Danjiangkou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 963, column 2
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