Zhenbeipu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮北堡／镇北堡.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jǔnʹbāʹpo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Zhenbeipu

1. A town in Xixia district, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.
   • 2002 October, “A Trip to Ningxia”, in Traveling the Silk Road in China‎^[1], Xinjiang People's Publishing House (新疆人民出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

     The Movie-TV Center is situated at Zhenbeipu. This place was formerly an important strategic stronghold on the frontier, it has been kept in its natural and undeveloped state making it a prime location for outdoor film settings of ancient China's Western regions.

   • 2006 August 11, Jackie Zhang, “Ningxia — a cool journey to ancient ruins”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], number 271, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20, column 2:

     Take the coach from Nanmen Square, Yinchuan, to Zhenbeipu Town and then take a taxi from Zhenbeipu Town to Helankou, which will cost you about 15 yuan.

   • 2007, China Tourism‎^[3], numbers 307-309, →OCLC, pages 125–126:

     I even found it difficult to walk up the stairs at the Gulous Restraunt in Yincuan^{[sic – meaning Yinchuan]}. So I decided to stay on level ground and visit Zhenbeipu fortress. […]
     Leaving boisterous Zhenbeipu, we headed west. The road climbed uphill some 10 km as we moved over the alluvial plain created by the glaciers of the Helan Mountains.

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

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎮北堡／镇北堡

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