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Jiuquan

Syllables: Jiu·quan

Jiuquan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.

Proper noun

Jiuquan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
    • The wind howls outside, but many turbines in Jiuquan, a city of vast deserts and farms in the northwest province of Gansu, have been shut off because of weak demand.2017 January 15, Javier C. Hernández, “It Can Power a Small Nation. But This Wind Farm in China Is Mostly Idle.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2017, Asia...
    • The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket.2020 September 12, “China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 May 2022

Forms of Jiuquan

alternative formChiu-ch'üan
alternative formChiuchuan

Origin of Jiuquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).

Questions about Jiuquan

What does Jiuquan mean?
Jiuquan means a prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
What part of speech is Jiuquan?
Jiuquan is a proper noun.

Words near Jiuquan in the dictionary

  1. Jiul de Est
  2. Jiul de Vest
  3. Jiulong
  4. Jiulongpo
  5. jiuniang
  6. Jiuquan
  7. Jiusian
  8. Jiuzhaigou
  9. jiva
  10. jivaatma
  11. jivaatmas

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