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Kelan

Syllables: Ke·lan

Kelan proper noun: a county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Kelan

  1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • 65. The missile test range’s monitoring network is centered in Kelan County, but it has some tracking and monitoring facilities in Wuzhai and Xingxian.1994, John Wilson Lewis, Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311
    • Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is located in Kelan County, northern Shanxi Province, nearly 300 km (480 mi) away from Taiyuan city, the provincial capital, and 500 km (800 mi) southwest of Beijing.2008, Peter Bond, Jane's Space Recognition Guide, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152

Forms of Kelan

alternative formK'o-lan
alternative formKolan

Origin of Kelan

From Mandarin 岢嵐 /岢岚 (Kělán).

Questions about Kelan

What does Kelan mean?
Kelan means a county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Kelan?
Kelan is a proper noun.

Words near Kelan in the dictionary

  1. Kelabitic
  2. Kelabits
  3. Kelaihuttaa
  4. Kelamayi
  5. kelampayoside
  6. Kelan
  7. Kelantan
  8. Kelantanese
  9. kelb-el-bahr
  10. Kelbrey
  11. Kelbrook

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