Luanchuan

Luan·chuan
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proper noun

A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Luan-ch'uan

  1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.

    Luanchuan County of Loyang Special District is abolished. The administrative area of the former Luanchuan County is transferred to Sung County.

    1960, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volumes 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 10
    2 more examples

    In Luanchuan County, Henan Province, for example, people subsist on 0.052 ha per capita. Government subsidies and cheap loans for agriculture are the only vehicles to keep the area afloat. Annual per capita income is approximately RMB 230 yuan. One of the three largest mines in the world—the Luanchuan molybdenum, lead, and zinc mine—attracted a deluge of miners.

    1994, Geping Qu, Li Jinchang, translated by Jiang Baozhong and Gu Ran, edited by Robert B. Boardman, Population and the Environment in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91

    Another 19 people were still missing, the local Dahe newspaper reported on its website, www.dahe.cn, after a 153-meter-long bridge in mountainous Luanchuan county in the central province of Henan collapsed on Saturday afternoon.

    2010 July 26, Huang Yan, Ken Wills, “Flooding causes China bridge to collapse, killing 37”, in Andrew Marshall, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022, Asia Crisis

Origin

  1. Mandarin欒川 /栾川
  2. EnglishLuanchuan

From Mandarin 欒川 /栾川.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 欒川 /栾川
  • 欒川 /栾川county
Chinese Mandarin 欒川 /栾川
  • 欒川 /栾川county
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