Yumen

See also: yùmén

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 玉門／玉门 (Yùmén).

Proper noun

Yumen

1. A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
   • 1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series)‎^[1], 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.

   • [1964, Joseph Earle Spencer, “YÜ-MEN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 23, →OCLC, page 926B, column 1:

     Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants.]

   • 1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], 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.

   • 2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2021, International Business‎^[5]:

     Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉門／玉门 (zh) (Yùmén)

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Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yumen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 2