Pingyuan

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 平原 (Píngyuán).

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Pingyuan

  1. (historical) A former province in China. Capital: Xinxiang
    • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Han Che-i”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series)‎[2], volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 287, column 1:
      The North China Government was absorbed by the central government when it was formed in October 1949, but just prior to that time (in August 1949) Pingyuan Province was formed with its capital in Hsin-hsiang (in present-day north Honan).

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References

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingyuan, Pingyüan, or P’ing-yüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2