Lingao

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See also: Língāo

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 臨高临高 (Língāo).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lingao

  1. A county of Hainan, China.
  • , M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370:
    Subsequently, "all Hainan Island was swept by a wave of discrimination, attack, insult and threat against outside cadres [with the result that] everybody was plunged into a state of panic." This came to a climax in December 1956 with a "miniature Hungarian incident" in Linkao county.]
  • 2020 November 27, Li Nan, “Beijing Review: How an addict conquered both his addiction and poverty”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 10 September 2023:
    Wang Haibian was among the first few people in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County of Hainan Province, south China, to get hooked on drugs in the mid-1990s.
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    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Limko”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1056, column 1

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