Jiayuguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 嘉峪關／嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān).

Jiayuguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
   • [1977, Flavio Conti, “The Great Wall, People's Republic of China”, in Patrick Creagh, transl., Breaking the Confines (The Grand Tour)‎, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1978, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

     This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province.]

   • [1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West‎, Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:

     There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.]

   • 2022 November 29, Keith Bradsher, “China to Launch 3 Astronauts to New Space Station: How to Watch”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 November 2022, Asia Pacific‎:

     Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.

• Translingual: Chiayusaurus

• Jiayuguan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiayuguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 3