Kelan
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Kelan
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
- [1966 May 20 [1966 May 19], “NEW TYPE OF PEASANT-DOCTORS BEING TRAINED”, in Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts[1], number 98, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page CCC 7[2]:
- Some 29 peasant-physicians have just completed their 30-month course of training in a remote mountain village in Kolan County, Shansi Province, north China. […]
The school was set up by the Kolan county hospital in 1963.]
- 1994, John Wilson Lewis, Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age[3], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311:
- 65. The missile test range’s monitoring network is centered in Kelan County, but it has some tracking and monitoring facilities in Wuzhai and Xingxian.
- 2008, Peter Bond, Jane's Space Recognition Guide[4], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is located in Kelan County, northern Shanxi Province, nearly 300 km (480 mi) away from Taiyuan city, the provincial capital, and 500 km (800 mi) southwest of Beijing.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kelan.
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- Kelan, K'o-lan, Ko-lan, Kolan at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kelan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1527, column 3
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Kelan