Leshan

• Le-shan (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 樂山／乐山 (Lèshān).

Leshan

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2001, Richard Webster, Seize the Baton‎, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

     Actually we would spend the first year or so in the smaller town of Leshan, a hundred miles south of Chengtu, learning the Szechuan dialect and the culture of the local people.

   • 2020 March 12, “China finds new African swine fever case in pigs transported to Sichuan province”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Health:

     The outbreak, found in Leshan, Sichuan province, on a truck transporting 111 pigs from other provinces, has killed 7 of the herd, according to a statement published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

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

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Leshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1720, column 2

• Hanels, Hansel, Lehans, halsen, hansel, lanseh