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Liangping
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Liǎngpíng
English
Liangping District
Alternative forms
en Liang-p'ing Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 梁平.
Pronunciation
lyäng′pĭng′
en Liang ping
Proper noun
en district city/Chongqing c/China.
en 08 August 1978 29 July 1978 Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property Daily Report: People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-chi-78-153/ I 153 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 1113433 E 18 https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-chi-78-153/page/n40/ Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.
en 2002 Deirdre Chetham Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/ w:Palgrave Macmillan 1-4039-6428-9 2002016939 474470844 8400279M 241 https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/page/241/ Many of the travelers on the passenger boats and buses leaving Chongqing for towns along the river and interior counties like Kaixian and Liangping are on their way to visit their lao jia, their family's town of origin, a place they may have left for university or which their grandparents fled in wartime.
en MAY 12, 2008 Lindsay Beck; Guo Shipeng; Darren Schuettler China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100 https://web.archive.org/web/20221013175959/https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-33530120080512 13 October 2022 w:Reuters World News China’s official Xinhua news agency said the deaths occurred when two primary schools toppled in Liangping county of Chongqing, a municipality of 30 million that neighbours Sichuan.
en December 24, 2010 Matt Gross Lost in China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20151104191228/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/travel/26chongqing.html 04 November 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/travel/26chongqing.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 梁平
Mandarin: cmn 梁平
Japanese: ja
Further reading
en 1998 Liangping Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1728 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1728/ 3