Yilan

alternative Ilan · alternative I-lan

1. A county of Taiwan.

   Taiwan’s Yilan County in the northeast was hit the hardest by Dujuan’s strongest winds on the right side of the eye.

   2015 September 28, Angela Fritz, “Watch Typhoon Dujuan roar ashore in Taiwan with violent 140 mph winds”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016, CAPITAL WEATHER GANG

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   Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.

   [1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879, Shanghai, page 181

   Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers. Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.

   1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4

   In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.

   1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York & London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98

   On Monday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration released a 12-second video of the moment the Puyuma Express train derailed in northeast Taiwan’s Yilan County. The train was carrying 366 passengers.[…] Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and its premier, Lai Ching-te, both visited Yilan County after the accident.

   2018 October 22, Chris Horton, “8 Members of Family Killed in Taiwan’s Worst Rail Crash in Decades”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2018, Asia Pacific

2. A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.

   From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.

   1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Princeton, N.J., page 66

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   At an information session on Wednesday, the ministry suggested a fifth possible location in Yilan City, which is 350m south of the Yilan County Hall, Wang said.

   2021 November 22, Shelley Shan, “MOTC might soon decide Yilan HSR station’s location”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2021, Taiwan News, page 3

   Synonyms: ILA

alternative Ilan · alternative I-lan

1. A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

   Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.

   [1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39

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   Many impact craters have been found around the world, but most of them were formed long before the emergence of homo sapiens 300,000 years ago. But the “impossibly deep” crater discovered in Yilan county near Harbin in Heilongjiang is thought to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by an asteroid about 100 metres wide.

   2021 August 9, “Chinese scientists find evidence of most powerful asteroid strike humans ever experienced”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021, Science