Loufan

See also: Lóufán

English

Alternative forms

• Lou-fan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 婁煩／娄烦 (Lóufán).

Proper noun

Loufan

1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • 2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, Latest Crisis, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 May 2022:

     At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.

   • 2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends‎^[2], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:

     On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 婁煩／娄烦 (zh) (Lóufán)

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