Linfen

Proper noun

Linfen

1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
   • Headquarters of the Second War Zone was at that time at Linfen, a sizable city on the railway in the southern half of Shansi, jammed now with soldiers, officials and refugees from the North.1938, Anna Louise Strong, One-Fifth of Mankind, New York: Modern Age Books, →OCLC, page 121
   • The village is on the outskirts of Linfen, an industrial city of 4.4 million which was once ranked among the world’s most heavily polluted cities, a consequence of the unregulated boom of steel and other industries locating factories close to their fuel source. Like much of northeastern China, even...2018 February 10, Steven Lee Myers, “In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2018, Asia Pacific