Jiuzhaigou
See also: Jiǔzhàigōu
English
Alternative forms
- Chiu-chai-kou (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝/九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).
Proper noun
Jiuzhaigou
- A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
- 1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
- Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.
- A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- 2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2014, Travel:
- From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors, […] Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.
- 2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 August 2017, Environment:
- Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiuzhaigou Valley”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3
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