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Pinglo

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English

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 平羅 / 平罗 (Píngluó) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-lo².

Proper noun

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Pinglo

  1. Alternative form of Pingluo.
    • 1971, Survey of China Mainland Press[1], numbers 4952-4965, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31:
      pinglo county in northern ningsia suffered from serious alkalinization. Last winter more than half of the county's manpower was mobilized to dig 600 drainage ditches to reduce the damage.
    • 1981 May 22, Ding Menglin [0002 1125 7792] [丁夢麟], “Some Paleoseismic Evidence in the North China Region”, in China Report: Science and Technology, number 100, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing DIZHEN DIZHI [SEISMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY], Vol 3 No 1, pp 67-74, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72:
      In this report some evidence of ancient earthquakes found in the north China region are presented as follows: [] 2. The offset of the Great Wall and fault scarps by the ancient earthquakes in the Hongguozigou area northwest of Pinglo County, Ningxia Autonomous Region; []