Kelan

• K'o-lan (Wade–Giles)
• Kolan

From Mandarin 岢嵐 / 岢岚 (Kělán).

Kelan

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • 1994, John Wilson Lewis, Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311:

     65. The missile test range’s monitoring network is centered in Kelan County, but it has some tracking and monitoring facilities in Wuzhai and Xingxian.

   • 2008, Peter Bond, Jane's Space Recognition Guide‎^[2], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:

     Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is located in Kelan County, northern Shanxi Province, nearly 300 km (480 mi) away from Taiyuan city, the provincial capital, and 500 km (800 mi) southwest of Beijing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kelan.

• Kelan, K'o-lan, Ko-lan, Kolan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kelan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1527, column 3

• ankle, kalen, Kalen

Kelan

1. genitive singular of Kela