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Yangling

Syllables: Yang·ling

Yangling proper noun: a district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Yangling

  1. A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
    • This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties which are so well-liked by the people, but it also planted such new and improved...1993 August 10 [1993 June 6], “Everyone Contributes To Ensure Abundant Results From the Summer Harvest”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-058, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xian...
    • In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent.2014 October 12, Ian Johnson, “Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2014, Asia Pacific

Origin of Yangling

From Mandarin 楊陵 /杨陵 (Yánglíng).

Questions about Yangling

What does Yangling mean?
Yangling means a district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Yangling?
Yangling is a proper noun.

Words near Yangling in the dictionary

  1. yangite
  2. Yangjiang
  3. Yangjingbang
  4. yangko
  5. Yangku
  6. Yangling
  7. Yangluo
  8. yangmei
  9. yangmeis
  10. Yangmingism
  11. Yangmingist

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