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Loufan
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Lóufán
English
Alternative forms
en Lou-fan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn - 婁煩.
Pronunciation
lō′fän′
en Lou fan
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Taiyuan province/Shanxi c/China.
en JULY 31, 2008 Shipeng Guo China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10 Nick Macfie https://web.archive.org/web/20220512122628/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK169338 12 May 2022 w:Reuters Latest Crisis At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.
en 2010 w:John Naisbitt; Doris Naisbitt China's Megatrends https://archive.org/details/chinasmegatrends00nais_0/ w:HarperCollins 978-0-06-185944-1 2009023554 396196771 24448118M 108 https://archive.org/details/chinasmegatrends00nais_0/page/108/ On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 婁煩
Mandarin: cmn 婁煩 Lóufán
Japanese: ja