Yunling
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editFrom Mandarin 雲嶺／云岭 (Yúnlǐng).
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- A mountain range in Yunnan, in southern China
- 1876, A. R. McMahon, The Karens of the Golden Chersonese[1], London: Harrison, →OCLC, pages 1–2:
- The great Himalayan chain which forms the southern boundary of its land of origin, is intercepted on the south-east confines of Tibet by a transverse mountain system, originating with the Yunling and allied ranges, and also forming the ultra-Indian peninsulas, by which the Hoangho is forced far north, and ultimately finds its way into the Gulf of Pecheli.
- 1922, Sven Hedin, Southern Tibet[2], volume 7, Stockholm, →OCLC, page 332:
- We have seen that SAUNDERS in this region has three tremendous ranges, more enormous than even those of Richthofen. He even goes so far as to make Himalaya continue uninterruptedly, to the N. E., and to make the Yunling Mountains of western China practically one and the same fold as the Himalaya.
- 1992, Shunwu Zhou, “Yunnan Province”, in China Provincial Geography [中国分省地理][3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 386:
- Topographically, the province is divided roughly into two major sections with the valleyland of the Yuanjiang River and the low-lying dale east of the Yunling Range as the demarcation line: the Hengduan Mountains are to the west and the Eastern Yunnan Plateau is to the east.
- 2021 November 12, Xinyi Song, “Endeavoring to protect golden monkeys”, in Shanghai Daily[4], archived from the original on 15 November 2021:
- Black and white coloring, Mohican haircut, buxom lips and cute faces wearing a human smile, Yunnan golden monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti), also known as the black/black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys, roam in the rugged Yunling Range in southwestern Yunnan Province.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yunling.