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Lintong

Syllables: Lin·tong

Lintong proper noun: a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Lintong

  1. A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • On the morning of June 24, we drove east to Huaching Pool, which is outside the city of Sian. This time my tourist guide was a young lady. Huaching Pool is situated near the north side of Lishan Hill in Lintung County, twenty-five kilometers east of Sian.[1980, T. Y. Wong, “Sian—the Old Capital”, in My Y-Shaped Travels in China, 1st edition, Smithtown, New York: Exposition Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35
    • Vegetable farmers in the Lintong district of Xian, in Shaanxi province, were forced to plough over more than 10 hectares of celery growing in their fields last week after failing to find buyers, the Huashang Daily reported.2016 June 13, Stephen Chen, “‘Tearful’ Chinese farmers lose tens of thousands of yuan as hot weather causes early celery harvest”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of Lintong

alternative formLin-t'ung

Origin of Lintong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼.

Questions about Lintong

What does Lintong mean?
Lintong means a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Lintong?
Lintong is a proper noun.

Words near Lintong in the dictionary

  1. Lintners
  2. lintol
  3. lintols
  4. Linton
  5. Linton-on-Ouse
  6. Lintong
  7. lintonite
  8. lintonites
  9. Lintons
  10. lintopride
  11. lints

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