Shuozhou
See also: Shuòzhōu
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Shuo-chou
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 朔州 (Shuòzhōu).
Proper noun
Shuozhou
- A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
- [1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Peking Campaign: Completion of the Military Unification”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 162–163:
- In northernmost Shansi, Chang had pressed deeply inside the ancient Great Wall, taking first Ta-t’ung and then Shuochou. On May 8, Yen was finally able to mount a counteroffensive, which retook Shuochou and pushed Chang's Ankuochün back out of northern Shansi.]
- 2005 March 21, “WORLD IN BRIEF”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 January 2024[3]:
- The blast occurred Saturday at the Xishui Colliery in Shuozhou, a major coal mining area in Shanxi province.
- 2019 June 20, David Stanway, “China coal hub Shanxi slams seven cities for pollution spike in 2019”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 2019-06-21, Environment[5]:
- All seven cities saw an increase in air pollution during January-May. Readings assessed showed an average concentration of hazardous airborne particles - known as PM2.5 - up by as much as 14.8% in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and by 16.3% in Shuozhou.