Guizhou

• (Tongyong Pinyin) Gueijhou, (uncommon) Gueizhou, Kueichow, Kweichow
• Kueichou, Kuei-chou (Wade–Giles)
• Queicheu, Quicheu (obsolete)

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴州／贵州 (Guìzhōu).

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)ɡweɪˈd͡ʒoʊ/, enPR: gwāʹjōʹ

Guizhou

1. A province in southwestern China. Capital: Guiyang.
   • 2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-13, Asia Pacific‎:

     The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.

   • 2016 September 13, Ishaan Tharoor, “The incredible sight of China’s latest record-breaking bridge”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2016, WorldViews‎:

     Over the weekend, engineers in China's mountainous southwestern Guizhou province linked the two ends of a bridge spanning a rocky gorge. The completion of the Beipanjiang bridge marks yet another infrastructure record in China — the world's "highest" bridge, sitting 1,854 feet above the river below.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guizhou.

• Latin: guizhouensis

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1