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Dianjiang
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English
Dianjiang County
Alternative forms
en Tien-chiang Tienchiang Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dianjiang/Tien-chiang 30°19′N 107°20′E, romanization of the en cmn 墊江.
Pronunciation
dyĕn′jyäng′Tienkiang or Tien-chiang 1911 1
en Dian jiang
Proper noun
en county city/Chongqing c/China.
en November 27, 2005 Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20221127020733/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/world/asia/harbin-prepares-to-turn-the-taps-back-on.html 27 November 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/world/asia/harbin-prepares-to-turn-the-taps-back-on.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.
en 2011 w:Frank Dikötter w:Mao's Great Famine https://archive.org/details/maosgreatfamineh0000diko/ Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury 978-1-4088-1003-3 701827257 31978172M 53 https://archive.org/details/maosgreatfamineh0000diko/page/53/ In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.
en 2017 Resettlement Plan (Draft) Asian Development Bank https://ewsdata.rightsindevelopment.org/files/documents/02/ADB-51005-002_tG5db26.pdf 15 Dianjiang County is located in the northeast of Chongqing City, in the upstream region of Yangtze River, and is 120km from the downtown of Chongqing. https://web.archive.org/web/20260817235215/https://ewsdata.rightsindevelopment.org/files/documents/02/ADB-51005-002_tG5db26.pdf 17 August 2026
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 墊江
Mandarin: cmn 墊江 Diànjiāng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Dianjiang 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 1015 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1015/ 2
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