Youyang
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽 / 酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).
Proper noun
Youyang
- A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
- 1979 February, “Biggest Tree in China”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
- The agency said the tree, which is 1,344 metres in diameter, is believed to be about 75 years old, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry Science. It was found in Youyang county, Sichuan (Szechwan) province.
- 2004 June 28, “Rare women”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 December 2023:
- Travelling recently in southern, rural Chongqing, I was struck by the sense that something in the atmosphere was different from elsewhere in the mainland. Youyang county is a Tu ethnic area, and even though the Tu look different from Han Chinese - they are darker, with longer noses and diamond-shaped eyes - it was not the physical difference.
Translations
Tujia and Miao autonomous county
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Youyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3535, column 2