Longling

English

Alternative forms

• Lung-ling (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍陵／龙陵 (Lónglíng).

Proper noun

Longling

1. A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
   • [1981 August, Frank Don, “Earth Alert: Preparing for Earthquakes”, in Earth Changes Ahead‎^[1], New York: Destiny Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 141-142:

     Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976.]

   • 2006, Christine E. Jackson, “The Green Peacock in the East”, in Peacock‎^[2], Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 132–134:

     Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden.

Translations

county in Yunnan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍陵／龙陵 (zh) (Lónglíng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Longling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1776, column 2