Dingxi

• (from Wade–Giles) Ting-hsi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese romanization for 定西 (Dìngxī).

Dingxi

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
   • [1982, Dreyer, Edward L., “Hung-wu: The Period of Consolidation, 1368-1380”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355-1435‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 80-51646, OCLC 470974080, page 72:

     On 3 May Hsü Ta’s army made contact with Kökö Temür’s forces near Tinghsi in Kansu.]

   • 1999, The China Human Development Report‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 42043588, page 84:

     For instance, in the arid Dingxi region of Gansu, deforestation forced the local population to tear up the sod to use as fuel, thus further reducing the already inadequate carrying capacity of the land and exacerbating the region’s serious poverty.