Longde

English

Map including Longde (DMA, 1988)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隆德 (Lóngdé).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔŋ.də/

Proper noun

Longde

1. A county of Guyuan, Ningxia, China.
   • [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎^[1], volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 146:

     For fifteen miles, as far as the district city of Lung-te Hsien, the road runs direct east up a valley and was in excellent condition.]

   • 2004, Peter Ho, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎^[2], →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189‎^[3]:

     In a personal interview with Prof. Chen Zhongxiang from Ningxia University in September 1999 I was told that 85 per cent of the budget of Longde county come from taxes of its suspended village Chahu in Pingluo county.

   • 2020, “Claims in Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation in China: Problems and Solutions”, in Sustainability and Law: General and Specific Aspects‎^[4], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 394:

     In a water pollution case of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) v. Longde County People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and other eight defendants, the plaintiff CBCGDF claimed that Longde County Government was negligent in supervision and tolerated for a longtime local enterprises to discharge pollutants into the river, resulting in pollution of the drinking water source in the downstream of Jingning County.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隆德 (zh) (Lóngdé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Longde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1775, column 3