Meanings
- A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
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But critics argue that moving these farmers, who are mainly Han Chinese and members of the minority Hui, Tu and Salar ethnic groups, will further erode the position of the Tibetan inhabitants of Dulan County in Haixi Prefecture, where the farmers are to be resettled and which is a designated Tibetan and Mongolian Autonomous Area. Tibetans are already in a minority there.
1999 May 30, Paul Lewis, “U.S. May Try To Stop Loan Seen as Bad For Tibetans”, in The New York Times (World section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
Origin
- Mandarin都蘭 /都兰
- EnglishDulan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 都蘭 /都兰 (Dūlán).
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Chinese Cantonese 都蘭 /都兰
- 都蘭 /都兰 (dou¹ laan⁴)county
Chinese Mandarin 都蘭 /都兰
- 都蘭 /都兰 (Dūlán)county
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Dulan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulan
“Dulan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulan. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dulan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulan.
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