Jiuzhaigou
See also: Jiǔzhàigōu
English
Alternative forms
- Chiu-chai-kou (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝／九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).
Proper noun
Jiuzhaigou
- A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
- 1979 January 31 [1979 January 16], “Sichuan Animal Preserves”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 487, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA [Peking NCNA], →OCLC, Science and Technology, page 94:
- The Jiuzhaigou [Chiuchaikou] preserve will be in a region of dense forests, springs and lakes. Giant pandas, golden monkeys and takins are all to be found there.
- 1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
- Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.
- A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- 2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2014, Travel[4]:
- From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors, […] Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.
- 2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 11 August 2017, Environment[6]:
- Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.
Translations
nature reserve in Sichuan, China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiuzhaigou Valley”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3