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Loufan

Syllables: Lou·fan

Loufan proper noun: a county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Loufan

  1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
    • At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, Latest Crisis, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022
    • On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month...2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108

Forms of Loufan

alternative formLou-fan

Origin of Loufan

From Mandarin 婁煩/娄烦 (Lóufán).

Questions about Loufan

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

Words near Loufan in the dictionary

  1. louely
  2. louer
  3. louers
  4. loues
  5. Louey
  6. Loufan
  7. Louga
  8. Lougee
  9. Lougees
  10. lough
  11. Lough Allen

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