Sanmenxia

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 三門峽三门峡 (Sānménxiá).

Proper noun

Sanmenxia

  1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
    • 2013 February 1, “China highway collapse”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on February 02, 2024:
      Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road.
      The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.
    • 2019 April 14, Paul Mozur, “One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-14, Technology:
      Law enforcement in the central Chinese city of Sanmenxia, along the Yellow River, ran a system that over the course of a month this year screened whether residents were Uighurs 500,000 times.

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References

  1. Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 361:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: [] (1) the Post Office system, [] (2) the Wade-Giles system, [] shown after the main entry [] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses [] Sanmensia (San-men-hsia, Sanmenxia)

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