Luanchuan

English

Alternative forms

• Luan-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 欒川／栾川.

Proper noun

Luanchuan

1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • 1960, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[1], volumes 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 10:

     Luanchuan County of Loyang Special District is abolished. The administrative area of the former Luanchuan County is transferred to Sung County.

   • 1994, Geping Qu, Li Jinchang, translated by Jiang Baozhong and Gu Ran, edited by Robert B. Boardman, Population and the Environment in China‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

     In Luanchuan County, Henan Province, for example, people subsist on 0.052 ha per capita. Government subsidies and cheap loans for agriculture are the only vehicles to keep the area afloat. Annual per capita income is approximately RMB 230 yuan. One of the three largest mines in the world—the Luanchuan molybdenum, lead, and zinc mine—attracted a deluge of miners.

   • 2010 July 26, Huang Yan, Ken Wills, “Flooding causes China bridge to collapse, killing 37”, in Andrew Marshall, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 May 2022, Asia Crisis:

     Another 19 people were still missing, the local Dahe newspaper reported on its website, www.dahe.cn, after a 153-meter-long bridge in mountainous Luanchuan county in the central province of Henan collapsed on Saturday afternoon.

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

Descendants

• Translingual: Luanchuanraptor

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欒川 / 栾川 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can