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Yangquan

Syllables: Yang·quan

Yangquan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Yangquan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Yangchuan, the leading anthracite producer in China with twelve pairs of mine shafts, fulfilled its 1975 target forty-one days ahead of time and probably produced 7 to 9 million tons during the year.[1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52
    • The mayors of Handan in Hebei province and Jincheng and Yangquan in Shanxi province were given the orders after being summoned to a meeting at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing on Thursday to account for their actions during a recent campaign against smog.2018 May 2, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China bans new polluting projects in three cities: ministry”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 May 2023

Forms of Yangquan

alternative formYang-ch'üan
alternative formYangchüan

Origin of Yangquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽泉 /阳泉 (Yángquán).

Questions about Yangquan

What does Yangquan mean?
Yangquan means a prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Yangquan?
Yangquan is a proper noun.

Words near Yangquan in the dictionary

  1. yangpans
  2. Yangpu
  3. yangqin
  4. yangqins
  5. Yangqu
  6. Yangquan
  7. yangs
  8. Yangsan
  9. Yangshao
  10. Yangshuo
  11. Yangshupu

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