Yumen
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See also: yùmén
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 玉門 / 玉门 (Yùmén).
Proper noun
Yumen
- A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
- 1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 202:
- Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.
- 1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
- After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.
- 2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2021, International Business:
- Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.
Translations
county-level city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yumen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 2