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Longling

Syllables: Long·ling

Longling proper noun: a county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.

Proper noun

Longling

  1. A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
    • Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976.[1981 August, Frank Don, “Earth Alert: Preparing for Earthquakes”, in Earth Changes Ahead, New York: Destiny Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 141-142
    • Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden.2006, Christine E. Jackson, “The Green Peacock in the East”, in Peacock, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 132–134

Forms of Longling

alternative formLung-ling

Origin of Longling

From Mandarin 龍陵 /龙陵 (Lónglíng).

Questions about Longling

What does Longling mean?
Longling means a county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
What part of speech is Longling?
Longling is a proper noun.

Words near Longling in the dictionary

  1. longline
  2. longlined
  3. longliner
  4. longliners
  5. longlines
  6. Longling
  7. longlining
  8. longlist
  9. longlisted
  10. longlisting
  11. longlists

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