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Longling
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English
Longling County
Alternative forms
en Lung-ling Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 龍陵.
Pronunciation
lo͝ong′lĭng′Lungling 1097 2
en Long ling
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Baoshan province/Yunnan c/China.
en 1981 August Frank Don Earth Alert: Preparing for Earthquakes Earth Changes Ahead https://archive.org/details/earthchangesahea0000donf/ New York w:Destiny Books 0-446-85577-4 7787868 141-142 https://archive.org/details/earthchangesahea0000donf/page/142/ Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976. on
en 2006 Christine E. Jackson The Green Peacock in the East Peacock https://archive.org/details/peacock0000jack/ w:Reaktion Books 1861892934 67375482 132–134 https://archive.org/details/peacock0000jack/page/132/ Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden.
Translations
county in Yunnan
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 龍陵
Mandarin: cmn 龍陵 Lónglíng
References
Further reading
en 1998 Longling 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 1776 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1776/ 2