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Guyuan

Syllables: Gu·yuan

Guyuan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Guyuan

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy.2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, →ISSN...
    • Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in...2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2016, World
  2. (historical) Synonym of Yuanzhou.
    Synonyms:
    Yuanzhou

Synonyms of Guyuan

Forms of Guyuan

alternative formKuyuan

Origin of Guyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 固原 (Gùyuán).

Questions about Guyuan

What does Guyuan mean?
Guyuan means a prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Guyuan?
Guyuan is a proper noun.

Words near Guyuan in the dictionary

  1. Guyton
  2. Guytons
  3. guytrash
  4. guytrashes
  5. Guyu
  6. Guyuan
  7. Guyuk
  8. Guyula
  9. guyver
  10. guywire
  11. guywires

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