Yangquan

English

Alternative forms

• Yang-ch'üan (Wade–Giles)
• Yangchüan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽泉／阳泉 (Yángquán).

Proper noun

Yangquan

1. A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
   • [1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China‎^[1], Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

     Yangchuan, the leading anthracite producer in China with twelve pairs of mine shafts, fulfilled its 1975 target forty-one days ahead of time and probably produced 7 to 9 million tons during the year.]

   • 2018 May 2, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China bans new polluting projects in three cities: ministry”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-05-28‎^[3]:

     The mayors of Handan in Hebei province and Jincheng and Yangquan in Shanxi province were given the orders after being summoned to a meeting at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing on Thursday to account for their actions during a recent campaign against smog.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽泉／阳泉 (zh) (Yángquán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 3