Yandang
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 雁蕩/雁荡 (Yàndàng, literally “Wild Goose Pond”).
Proper noun
[edit]Yandang
- A town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
- A nearby mountain.
- 2024 May 7, Lilit Marcus, Wayne Chang, “Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding”, in CNN[2], archived from the original on May 07, 2024, Travel[3]:
- Earlier this week, groups of travelers climbing Yandang Mountain in eastern China were stuck partway up a cliff, clinging to a rope along a fixed climbing route, for more than an hour.
- The surrounding range of mountains.
Translations
[edit]town, mountains
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yandang Moutain”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3513, column 3
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