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Jiuzhaigou

Syllables: Jiu·zhai·gou

Jiuzhaigou proper noun: a nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.

Proper noun

Jiuzhaigou

  1. A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
    • The Jiuzhaigou [Chiuchaikou] preserve will be in a region of dense forests, springs and lakes. Giant pandas, golden monkeys and takins are all to be found there.1979 January 31 [1979 January 16], “Sichuan Animal Preserves”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 487, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Beijing...
    • Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61
  2. A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
    • Taxi - Taking a taxi from Jiuzhaigou County to the scenic area is about RMB 10.2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 420
    • 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.2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2014, Travel

Forms of Jiuzhaigou

alternative formChiu-chai-kou

Origin of Jiuzhaigou

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝 /九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).

Questions about Jiuzhaigou

What does Jiuzhaigou mean?
Jiuzhaigou means a nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
What part of speech is Jiuzhaigou?
Jiuzhaigou is a proper noun.

Words near Jiuzhaigou in the dictionary

  1. Jiulong
  2. Jiulongpo
  3. jiuniang
  4. Jiuquan
  5. Jiusian
  6. Jiuzhaigou
  7. jiva
  8. jivaatma
  9. jivaatmas
  10. jivadaya
  11. jivamukti

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