North China Plain
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English
Etymology
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Proper noun
- A large alluvial plain of northern China, bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains and Funiu Mountains, to the southwest by the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and merging with the Jianghuai Plains to the south.
- 1948 June 12, Lewis Clark, “The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth)”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1948, volume VII, Nanking: Government Printing Office, published 1973, →OCLC, page 296:
- It is probable that, as the campaign progresses, the Manchurian Communists will be able to secure a foothold on the North China Plain.
- 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
- The predominantly calcareous alluvium of the North China plain and the summer rainfall have made the region one of the most important agricultural areas of China.
- 2022 April 20, Echo Xie, “Dead heat by 2050: massive North China area to be hotspot for killer mix of heatwaves and surface ozone, study finds”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 20 April 2022:
- The North China Plain, extending across 14 million hectares (35 million acres), was a hotspot for extreme heat and ozone pollution in China, wrote the Chinese and US researchers behind the study.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:North China Plain.
Translations
plain located in northern China
Further reading
- North China Plain at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “North China Plain”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2210, column 2