Meanings
- uncountableA plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.
1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 481 more example
The Loess Plateau China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).
1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 黃土高原 /黄土高原
- 黃土高原 /黄土高原 (huángtǔ gāoyuán)plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
Finnish Kiinan lössiylänkö
- Kiinan lössiylänköplateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
Polish Wyżyna Lessowa
- Wyżyna Lessowaplateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
Russian Лёссовое плато́, Лёссовая равни́на
- Лёссовое плато́ (Ljóssovoje plató)plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
- Лёссовая равни́на (Ljóssovaja ravnína)plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
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Loess Plateau. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Loess%20Plateau
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