Jinghong
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Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 景洪 (Jǐnghóng).
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Jinghong
- A county-level city in Xishuangbanna prefecture, Yunnan, China.
- 2014 April 25, Andrew Jacobs, “In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-26, Asia Pacific:
- In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls.
- 2021 March 16, David Stanway, “China's Yunnan vows ecological 'security barrier' to limit disease risks”, in Janet Roberts, Blake Morrison, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 17 March 2021, Environment:
- Beyond Yunnan’s fragmented nature reserves, the churn of urbanisation continues. Xishuangbanna’s population has doubled in 40 years, its ethnic minorities subsumed in an urban sprawl centred on Jinghong, the region’s political centre. […]
A study published last year said existing schemes “do not offer adequate protection”, with nearly 25% of the region’s biodiversity hotspots not covered. Another 2020 paper showed Jinghong had lost a quarter of its tropical forest since 1999.
- 2023 January 19, “Zero-Covid left in dust as Chinese revellers fuel travel boom”, in France 24, archived from the original on 19 January 2023:
- A woman wears traditional clothes at a night market in the city of Jinghong in Xishuangbanna
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinghong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2