Guangyuan
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See also: guāngyuán
English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣元／广元 (Guǎngyuán).
Proper noun
Guangyuan
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- , Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.]
- 2008 May 16, William J. Broad, “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 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.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3