Linfen
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Lin-fen
Proper noun
Linfen
- A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
- 1938, Anna Louise Strong, One-Fifth of Mankind, New York: Modern Age Books, OCLC 639895895, page 121:
- Headquarters of the Second War Zone was at that time at Linfen, a sizable city on the railway in the southern half of Shansi, jammed now with soldiers, officials and refugees from the North.
- 2019 April 15, Muyu Xu; David Stanway, “China coal hub Linfen to extend anti-pollution curbs to third quarter: draft plan”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 April 2019, Sustainable Business:
- China coal hub Linfen in central province Shanxi, one of the most polluted cities in the nation, plans to extend its winter restrictions on heavy industries to the end of the third quarter this year as it strives to meet air quality targets.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Linfen.
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Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Linfen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, OCLC 802473294, page 1058, column 3
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