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Qin Mountains
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English
Qin Ling
Etymology
en cmn - 秦嶺 derived from en cmn-pinyin -.en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Qin Mts/Ch'in,
Pronunciation
chǐnen 1979 Ch’in Ling The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 159 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/159/ 1 Ch’in Ling (chǐnʹ lǐngʹ),
Proper noun
Qin Mountains 1
A major east-west mountain range in southern Shaanxi province, China.
en 1996 Liz Laider; Keith Laidler Eastern Plains and Yangtze Wetlands China's Threatened Wildlife https://archive.org/details/chinasthreatened00laid/ Blandford 0-7137-2372-6 1221639539 115 https://archive.org/details/chinasthreatened00laid/page/115/ The Qin Mountains support an especially rich variety of plant and animal life. This mountain range bisects China east to west and is the watershed for the Yellow River (Huang He) to the north and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the south.
en November 5, 2001 Philip P. Pan Cancer-Stricken Chinese Village Tries to Pierce a Wall of Silence w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230820122752/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/11/05/cancer-stricken-chinese-village-tries-to-pierce-a-wall-of-silence/eb673943-e0e7-423e-9207-afb30fb3837b/ 20 August 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/11/05/cancer-stricken-chinese-village-tries-to-pierce-a-wall-of-silence/eb673943-e0e7-423e-9207-afb30fb3837b/ 0190-8286 2269358 At first glance, the residents of Dragon Range seem unlikely victims of industrial pollution. Here in the Qin Mountains, about 600 miles southwest of Beijing, people cultivate lush fields of corn and wheat carved into the mountainside like stairs.
en MAY 21, 2014 John Kemp COLUMN-For polluted China, gas is a matter of life or death: Kemp https://web.archive.org/web/20220904101941/https://www.reuters.com/article/china-russia-gas-pollution-idUKL6N0O73HS20140521 May 21, 2014 w:Reuters Energy To determine which cities qualified for free heating, planners employed the traditional division between northern and southern China that runs along the line of the Qin Mountains and Huai River.The Huai-Qinling line is an arbitrary boundary dating to imperial times, though it corresponds roughly to the 33rd parallel of latitude and the zero degrees Celsius isotherm in January.
Synonyms
Qinling Mountains
Translations
mountain range in southern Shaanxi province
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 秦嶺 Qínlǐng, cmn 秦嶺山脈 Qínlǐng shānmài
Finnish: fi Qinling-vuoristo
French: fr monts Qinling m-p
Polish: pl Qin Ling m-in
Russian: ru Циньли́н m
Spanish: es
Zhuang: za Cinzlingj
References
en Mountains Places in China