Sikang

Proper noun

Sikang

1. A former province of China.
   • (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73
   • The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85