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Yilan

Syllables: Yi·lan

Yilan proper noun: a county of Taiwan.

Proper noun (1)

Yilan

  1. A county of Taiwan.
    • Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.[1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879, Shanghai, page 181
    • Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers.
    • Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4
  2. A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.
    • From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Princeton, N.J., page 66
    • At an information session on Wednesday, the ministry suggested a fifth possible location in Yilan City, which is 350m south of the Yilan County Hall, Wang said.2021 November 22, Shelley Shan, “MOTC might soon decide Yilan HSR station’s location”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2021, Taiwan News, page 3
    Synonyms:
    ILA

Proper noun (2)

Yilan

  1. A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
    • Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.[1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39
    • Many impact craters have been found around the world, but most of them were formed long before the emergence of homo sapiens 300,000 years ago.
      But the “impossibly deep” crater discovered in Yilan county near Harbin in Heilongjiang is thought to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by an...2021 August 9, “Chinese scientists find evidence of most powerful asteroid strike humans ever experienced”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021...

Yilan meaning in Vietnamese

Yilan in Vietnamese

county in Taiwan; city in Taiwan
Nghi Lan

Examples of Yilan in a sentence

  • In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York & London: Garland Publishing...
  • Taiwan’s Yilan County in the northeast was hit the hardest by Dujuan’s strongest winds on the right side of the eye.2015 September 28, Angela Fritz, “Watch Typhoon Dujuan roar ashore in Taiwan with violent 140 mph winds”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN...

Synonyms of Yilan

Forms of Yilan

alternative formIlan
alternative formI-lan

Origin of Yilan

From Mandarin 宜蘭 (Yílán).

From Mandarin 依蘭／依兰 (Yīlán).

Words formed from Yilan

Questions about Yilan

What does Yilan mean?
Yilan means a county of Taiwan.
What is Yilan in Vietnamese?
Yilan in Vietnamese is Nghi Lan. See Yilan meaning in Vietnamese.
How do you use Yilan in a sentence?
In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.
What part of speech is Yilan?
Yilan is a proper noun.

Words near Yilan in the dictionary

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  3. yikkered
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  7. Yilan Creole
  8. Yildirim
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  10. Yildiz
  11. Yildizes

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