Fuyuan

See also: fúyuán, fùyuán, and Fùyuán

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 撫遠／抚远 (Fǔyuǎn).

Proper noun

Fuyuan

1. A county-level city in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China.
   • 1969 September [1969 August 19], Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, “Chinese Government Lodges Strong Protest With Soviet Government”, in Liberation‎^[1], volume 2, number 11, Pragati Printers, page 96:

     In the Pacha Island area in Fuyuan County of Heilungkiang Province, China, Soviet troops, after provoking the July 8 armed conflict, have incessantly dispatched many gunboats and aircraft to intrude into that area for various provocative activities.

   • 2014 November 26, “Putin’s tiger ravages goat farm in northeast China”, in AP News‎^[2]:

     The tiger, one of two to enter China from Russia’s Amur border region, bit and killed 15 goats and left another three missing on Sunday and Monday on a farm in Heilongjiang province’s Fuyuan county, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.

   • 2014 November 26, Edward Wong, “Another Feline Incursion From Russia Into China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-11-27, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     The attacks took place Sunday night at a farm on Heixiazi Island of Fuyuan County in Heilongjiang Province, south of Siberia, […]

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撫遠／抚远 (zh) (Fǔyuǎn)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fuyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1298, column 3