Daocheng
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稻城 (Dàochéng).
Proper noun edit
Daocheng
- A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- 2003 January 3, Wenlong, “Paradise Regained”, in Beijing Today[1], →OCLC, page 16:
- If the altitude of Daocheng (稻城) County doesn’t leave tourists speechless, the magnificent mountains and meadows in the vicinity of this 4,000-meter-high plateau surely will.
- 2022 March 18, “Two Sichuan sites selected as “China’s New Archaeological Discoveries in 2021””, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 18 March 2022:
- The Piluo site was discovered in May 2020 in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 stone artifacts at the site at an altitude of 3,750 meters.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daocheng.
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county in west China
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daocheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 965, column 3