Kalpin

English

Map including Kalpin (DMA, 1981)

Alternative forms

• Kelpin (from Urdu)
• Keping, K'o-p'ing (from Mandarin)

Etymology

From Uyghur كەلپىن (kelpin).

Proper noun

Kalpin

1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2008 June 23, Ben Blanchard, “China demolishes mosque for not supporting Olympics: group”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 04 April 2016, World:

     Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.
     The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.

   • 2009 February 25, “Quakeproof houses in NW China prove stable”, in Sina Corp‎^[2], archived from the original on March 2, 2009:

     A quake hit the juncture of Kalpin and Akqi counties, in [the] Tianshan Mountains, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, late Friday, Feb 20, 2009, affecting more than 14,800 people.

   • 2015, Ling-Ling Lv, Yue-Feng Zhang, Li-Li Zhang, “Glycomyces tarimensis sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from a saline-alkali habitat”, in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology‎^[3], volume 65, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Strain TRM 45387T was isolated from a saline-alkali soil collected from Kalpin county, Xinjiang Province, north-west China (40° 22′ N 79° 08′ E).

   • 2019 November 16, Juozapas Bagdonas, “Tracking Down the Fruits of Xinjiang’s Forced Labor Industry”, in The Diplomat‎^[4], archived from the original on November 16, 2019:

     Another company with ties to U.S. businesses is Xinjiang Nuodun Garment, which has made several shipments of men’s and women’s trousers to four companies in the U.S. The supplier was founded in July 2017, a few months after the re-education policy kicked off, and is based in Kalpin county, Aksu prefecture.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柯坪 (zh) (Kēpíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: كەلپىن (kelpin)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kelpin or Kelpin Bazar”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 926, column 2

Anagrams

• PK nail, plakin