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Jiaokou

Syllables: Jiao·kou

Jiaokou proper noun: a county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Jiaokou

  1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
    • Jiaokou County adopted a new process for refining sulfur, which raised the sulfur recovery rate from 40% to 80%, and the waste gas discharge met the State set standards.2006, “Technical Progress of TVEs”, in He Kang [何康], editor, China's Township and Village Enterprises [中国的乡镇企业], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 233–234
    • An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and...2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives...

Examples of Jiaokou in a sentence

  • The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).2011, Minerals Yearbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10.4:
  • Red mud is also what prompted the Chinese authorities to order the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi.2019 May 16, Andy Home, “Chinese outages a reminder of aluminum's dirty secret: Andy Home”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 16...

Origin of Jiaokou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 交口 (Jiāokǒu).

Questions about Jiaokou

What does Jiaokou mean?
Jiaokou means a county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Jiaokou in a sentence?
The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).
What part of speech is Jiaokou?
Jiaokou is a proper noun.

Words near Jiaokou in the dictionary

  1. jiao zi
  2. Jiaocheng
  3. jiaogulan
  4. Jiaohe
  5. Jiaojiang
  6. Jiaokou
  7. jiaos
  8. Jiaosi
  9. Jiaoxi
  10. Jiaozhou
  11. jiaozi

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