Subei

See also: Sūběi

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅北肃北 (Sùběi).

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Subei

  1. A Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
    • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
      In western Gansu, including Subei and Minle Counties, the lower part of the Xiaoshihugou Formation contains purple-red, thick- to thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstone.
    • 1998 May 14, Kenneth J. Cooper, “INDIA CONDUCTS 2ND ROUND OF NUCLEAR TESTS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-27:
      CHINA Some of China's main nuclear facilities: Subei: Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex, including plutonium production and weapons assembly.
    • 2014 October 19, “Row over smoke from dog meat eatery; dad stabs son, 9, over bed-wetting; teens rescued from sex trade”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2014, China Insider:
      Twenty two people have been put in quarantine in Subei county near Jiuquan after a man died last week from pneumonic plague, the West China Business News reports. The national health authorities have sent experts to help deal with the case.

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