Loufan

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See also: Lóufán

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Etymology

From Mandarin 婁煩娄烦 (Lóufán).

Proper noun

Loufan

  1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
    • 2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, Latest Crisis, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
      At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.
    • 2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
      On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Loufan.

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