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Jiuzhaigou
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Jiǔzhàigōu
English
Jiuzhaigou County
Alternative forms
en Chiu-chai-kou Wade-Giles
Etymology
Borrowed from the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 九寨溝.
Pronunciation
jyōʹjīʹgōʹ
en Jiu zhai gou
Proper noun
A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
en 31 January 1979 16 January 1979 Sichuan Animal Preserves Translations on People's Republic of China 487 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030367406&seq=583 Beijing Xinhua News Agency XINHUA [Peking NCNA] w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 2370938 Science and Technology 94 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030367406&seq=686 The Jiuzhaigou [Chiuchaikou] preserve will be in a region of dense forests, springs and lakes. Giant pandas, golden monkeys and takins are all to be found there.
en 1985 w:George B. Schaller; Hu Jinchu; w:Pan Wenshi; Zhu Jing The Giant Pandas of Wolong https://archive.org/details/giantpandasofwol0000unse/ w:University of Chicago Press 0-226-73643-1 84-8807 230654119 61 https://archive.org/details/giantpandasofwol0000unse/page/61/ Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.
en county autonomous prefecture/Ngawa p/Sichuan c/China.
en 2004 Intercontinental's Best of China https://archive.org/details/intercontinental0000lawe/ 978-7-5085-0429-2 253780866 9840088M 420 https://archive.org/details/intercontinental0000lawe/page/420/ Taxi - Taking a taxi from Jiuzhaigou County to the scenic area is about RMB 10.
en JUNE 13, 2014 w:Edward Wong In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20140614092853/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/travel/in-china-negotiating-peaks-and-police.html 14 June 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/travel/in-china-negotiating-peaks-and-police.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors,Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.
en AUGUST 8, 2017 Ben Blanchard; Nick Macfie Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province Andrew Bolton https://web.archive.org/web/20170811153727/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-quake-idUSKBN1AO1KJ 11 August 2017 w:Reuters Environment Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.
Translations
nature reserve in Sichuan, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 九寨溝 gau2 zaai6 kau1
Mandarin: cmn 九寨溝 Jiǔzhàigōu
Further reading
en 1998 Jiuzhaigou Valley 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 1452 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1452/ 3