Honghe

Hong·he
H4O1N1G2H4E1

proper noun

A Hani and Yao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A Hani and Yao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.

    The Yi also share an autonomous chou, Hungho, and the adjoining Kiangcheng hsien with the Hani, one of the ethnic groups closely associated with the Yi proper.

    [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48
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    撤销红河哈尼族彝族自治州的六村办事处,设立绿春县,绿春县的行政区域包括原六村办事处的全部地区和元阳县的第六区及金平县的坪河乡,县人民委员会驻原六村。

    1958年4、5月份行政区划变动情况(续前)

    [1958 September 27 [1958 July 14], “"Changes in Delineation of Administrative Areas," dated April and May 1958 [1958年4、5月份行政区划变动情况(续前)]”, in Weekly Information Report on Communist China, number 227, Central Intelligence Agency, sourced from Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao, 14 Jul 58, p 4 (Archived), translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Geographic, page 52

    Most of the chronically poor counties in Yunnan Province in the late 1970s tended to specialize in nongrain crops in the late 1950s. That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho, in tropical southeastern Yunnan.

    [1983, Nicholas R. Lardy, “Living standards and the distribution of income”, in Agriculture in China's modern economic development, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185

    All six victims were being treated in a hospital in Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. According to reports on Thursday from three local news media organizations, they fell ill after being injected with Ciwujia at No. 4 People's Hospital in Honghe prefecture.

    2008 October 9, Edward Wong, Huang Yuanxi, “After 3 deaths, China bans an herbal treatment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023, Asia Pacific

    The world's top private aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group plans to move 1.93 million tonnes of aluminium capacity to the Honghe prefecture in southwest Yunnan province, a local government notice showed.

    2021 December 28, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China Hongqiao to move aluminium smelting capacity to Yunnan province”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 May 2024, Currencies
  2. A county of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Origin

  1. Mandarin紅河 /红河
  2. EnglishHonghe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅河 /红河 (Hónghé).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 紅河 /红河
  • 紅河 /红河Hani and Yao autonomous prefecture; county
Chinese Mandarin 紅河 /红河
  • 紅河 /红河 (Hónghé)Hani and Yao autonomous prefecture; county
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