Yueyang
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See also: Yuèyáng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岳陽／岳阳 (Yuèyáng).
Proper noun
Yueyang
- A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
- , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128, column 1:
- Japanese troops were pulled to Yuehyang, at the junction of the Hsiang and Yangtze rivers, from Hunan, Honan, and Hupeh provinces.]
- , Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 342:
- In his capacity as Thief-punishing General, after the grand birthday celebrations in Hankow, he transferred his headquarters to Yüeh-yang.]
- A county of Yueyang City, Hunan, China.
- 2007 July 16, “China officials deny flood rats on the menu”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-16, Oddly Enough:
- A farmer holds up a rat that he killed along the Dongting Lake in Yueyang, in central China's Hunan province, July 10, 2007. Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported. […]
He Huaxian, a disease control official in Hunan’s plague-afflicted Yueyang county, denied a report in Information Times which said that trucks loaded with live rats from Hunan were headed for a local Guangzhou market, the China Daily reported on Tuesday.
- 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:
- In Yueyang county, Hunan, some 22,000 people lost their homes during the building of Tieshan Reservoir.
Synonyms
- (historical) Yochow
Translations
prefecture-level city or county of Hunan, China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yueyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3