Nujiang
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 怒江 (Nùjiāng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nujiang
- A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
- 2003, Noel Grove, Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
- On the side of a commercial van in the city, I saw the logo “Shangri-la Tours” written in English. Miffed by Lijiang's presumption, the Nujiang prefecture along the Salween River appointed a committee of academicians to study the origins of the Shangri-la myth, to see if they might claim it instead.
- 2022 July 27, “Global Times: Dulong people achieve miracle of eradicating poverty, embracing better life under firm leadership of CPC”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 September 2022:
- “People here have benefited from improved infrastructure and connectivity to eliminate poverty,” Kong, now head of Dulongjiang township of Gongshan county in Yunnan’s Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, told the Global Times.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nujiang.
- (with the) Nu River (the upper reaches of the Salween River in China).
Translations
Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan
the upper reaches of the Salween River in China