Jinghong

English Alternative forms en Ching-hung Wade-Giles Etymology Borrowed from the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 景洪. Pronunciation en /d͡ʒɪŋˈhɔŋ/ jĭng′ho͝ong′ en ʊŋ 2 en Jing hong Proper noun en county-level city autonomous prefecture/Xishuangbanna p/Yunnan c/China. en APRIL 25, 2014 Andrew Jacobs In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20140426022731/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/asia/in-land-that-values-ivory-wild-elephants-find-a-safe-haven.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls. en MARCH 16, 2021 David Stanway China's Yunnan vows ecological 'security barrier' to limit disease risks Janet Roberts; Blake Morrison https://web.archive.org/web/20210317053839/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-yunnan-idUSKBN2B817B 17 March 2021 w:Reuters Environment Beyond Yunnan’s fragmented nature reserves, the churn of urbanisation continues. Xishuangbanna’s population has doubled in 40 years, its ethnic minorities subsumed in an urban sprawl centred on Jinghong, the region’s political centre.A study published last year said existing schemes “do not offer adequate protection”, with nearly 25% of the region’s biodiversity hotspots not covered. Another 2020 paper showed Jinghong had lost a quarter of its tropical forest since 1999. en 01/19/2023 Zero-Covid left in dust as Chinese revellers fuel travel boom https://web.archive.org/web/20230119060922/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230119-zero-covid-left-in-dust-as-chinese-revellers-fuel-travel-boom 19 January 2023 w:France 24 A woman wears traditional clothes at a night market in the city of Jinghong in Xishuangbanna Translations county-level city of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China Burmese: my ကျိုင်းဟုံ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 景洪 Mandarin: cmn 景洪 Jǐnghóng Lao: lo ຊຽງຮຸ່ງ Lü: khb ᦵᦋᧂᦣᦳᧂᧈ Thai: th เชียงรุ่ง Northern Thai: nod ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩩ᩵ᨦ Further reading en 1998 Jinghong 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 1450 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1450/ 2