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Guangyuan
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guāngyuán
English
Alternative forms
en Kuang-yüan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 廣元.
Pronunciation
gwäng′yüan′Kwangyüan or Kuang-yüan 998 2
en Guang yuan
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Sichuan c/China.
en 1980 Eric O. Hanson Confrontation at the National Level: Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Catholic Church, 1949-1962 Catholic Politics in China and Korea American Society of Missiology Series https://archive.org/details/catholicpolitics0000hans/ Maryknoll, NY w:Orbis Books 0-88344-084-9 79-27206 5846731 66 https://archive.org/details/catholicpolitics0000hans/page/66/ The People’s Republic began its campaign to separate the Chinese church from Rome on November 30, 1950. The national Catholic Three Self Movement started in Kuangyuan, a town of northern Szechwan. on
en May 16, 2008 William Broad William J. Broad Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage https://web.archive.org/web/20081211044517/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/asia/16nuke.html 11 December 2008 Asia Pacific China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.
en 05/25/2008 Deadly aftershock jolts China w:France 24 https://web.archive.org/web/20240524222436/https://www.france24.com/en/20080525-deadly-aftershock-jolts-china-china-earthquake May 24, 2024 https://www.france24.com/en/20080525-deadly-aftershock-jolts-china-china-earthquake State television quoted an earthquake relief official in the city of Guangyuan, north of the provincial capital Chengdu, as saying the aftershock caused at least one death and 262 injuries in that city.The official, Wang Fei, also said several thousand homes in Guangyuan were believed destroyed by the aftershock, but he noted that many were already badly damaged.
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 廣元
Mandarin: cmn 廣元 Guǎngyuán
References
Further reading
en 2008 Guangyuan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1455 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1455/ 3