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Kalpin

Kalpin proper noun: a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

kalpin: a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China
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Proper noun

Kalpin

  1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.
      The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur...2008 June 23, Ben Blanchard, “China demolishes mosque for not supporting Olympics: group”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2016, World
    • A quake hit the juncture of Kalpin and Akqi counties, in [the] Tianshan Mountains, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, late Friday, Feb 20, 2009, affecting more than 14,800 people.2009 February 25, “Quakeproof houses in NW China prove stable”, in Sina Corp, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2009

Examples of Kalpin in a sentence

  • Strain TRM 45387T was isolated from a saline-alkali soil collected from Kalpin county, Xinjiang Province, north-west China (40° 22′ N 79° 08′ E).2015, Ling-Ling Lv, Yue-Feng Zhang, Li-Li Zhang, “Glycomyces tarimensis sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from a saline-alkali habitat”...
  • The supplier was founded in July 2017, a few months after the re-education policy kicked off, and is based in Kalpin county, Aksu prefecture.2019 November 16, Juozapas Bagdonas, “Tracking Down the Fruits of Xinjiang’s Forced Labor Industry”, in The Diplomat, archived from the...

Forms of Kalpin

alternative formKelpin
alternative formKeping
alternative formK'o-p'ing

Origin of Kalpin

From Uyghur كەلپىن (kelpin).

Questions about Kalpin

What does Kalpin mean?
Kalpin means a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Kalpin in a sentence?
Strain TRM 45387T was isolated from a saline-alkali soil collected from Kalpin county, Xinjiang Province, north-west China (40° 22′ N 79° 08′ E).
What part of speech is Kalpin?
Kalpin is a proper noun.

Words near Kalpin in the dictionary

  1. Kalpana
  2. kalpas
  3. kalpe
  4. kalpides
  5. Kalpienung
  6. Kalpin
  7. kalpis
  8. Kalra
  9. Kalras
  10. kalsilite
  11. kalsilites

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