Lenghu

English

Alternative forms

• Leng-hu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 冷湖 (Lěnghú).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Lenghu

1. A town in Mangnai, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
   • 1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, “Buried Cities and Shifting Sands — Onward to Dunhuang”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route‎^[1], Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

     At Niubiziliang we returned to the embrace of the Altun Mountains, then turning eastward we soon reached Lenghu, an oil city in Qinghai Province.
     The city of Lenghu was originally a salt lake. Located at a high altitude and in a frigid zone, it has no vegetation. The discovery of oil, however, has brought both people and vitality to this barren area. Today there are shopping arcades, cinemas, a TV station and hotels, but still one sees neither animals nor plants anywhere.
     Departing from Lenghu our car climbed up Dangjin Pass, the main passage leading to Gansu Province.

   • 2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes‎^[2], 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

     A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai.

   • 2019 March 4, Laurie Chen, “China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], archived from the original on 03 March 2019, Science:

     Spanning 32 hectares (80 acres), the base is situated 60km (37 miles) from the town of Lenghu near the upper reaches of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, an arid desert region dubbed “the place on Earth that is most unlike being on Earth”, according to camp manager Gao Junling. […]
     But the “Mars village” was originally proposed by the local government in 2017 as a cultural and educational centre for science, popular science and science fiction, according to Ma Wenwu, a member of the Mangnai city committee, which oversees Lenghu.

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

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷湖 (zh) (Lěnghú)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Lenghu in Encyclopædia Britannica