Pingli
English
Alternative forms
- P'ing-li (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From Mandarin 平利.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪŋ.li/, enPR: pǐngʹlēʹ[1]
Proper noun
Pingli
- A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
- 1949 July 14, “China Official Swears 'Win All Lose All' Fight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 30.24-4383:
- Teng said a large number of Communists were striking westward from Sian, capital of Shensi province. He added the Nationalists had lost Pingli in southern Shensi after a battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.
- 2017, Critical Mineral Resources of the United States: Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply, number 1802, , →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 028, column 1:
- In Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, China, the Badao bone coal contains 41 to 75 ppm of selenium, with a mean concentration of 57.5 ppm. […] The local environment in Pingli County was found to contain soil with a mean concentration of 0.3 to 1.1 ppm selenium, and agricultural crops with concentration of 0.57 to 2.75 ppm selenium (Fang and others, 2003).
- 2020 July 1, “Xinhua Commentary: At 99, CPC governance legitimacy shines brighter in time of global uncertainty”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 01 July 2020:
- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspects poverty alleviation work in a tea farm of Laoxian Township, Pingli County of the city of Ankang, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 21, 2020.
Translations
county
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References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingli or P’ing-li”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1
Further reading
- Pingli, P'ing-li, Ping-li at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingli”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3
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