Linzhou

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 林州 (Línzhōu).

Proper noun

Linzhou

1. A county-level city in Anyang, Henan, China.
   • 2007 November 6, “China's Zhongfu to buy mid-sized aluminium producer”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 May 2022, Oil Report:

     Linfeng Aluminium, based in Linzhou in Henan province, also produces aluminium bars and aluminium alloy bars, and has installed electric power generating capacity of 110 megawatts.

   • 2008 June, Oliver Tickell, “Nitrates and cancer”, in The Ecologist‎^[2], volume 38, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

     Further evidence comes from Linzhou County, Henan Province, in north China, however, whose boundaries encompass an area of about 2,000km² of dry, hilly country with a rapidly industrialising city at its core, and a population of about a million.

   • 2010, T.T. Yu, A.G. Zhou, X.Q. Li, H.S. Cai, Y.D. Liu, “Nitrate in drinking water in relation to the incidence and mortality of esophageal cancer, Linzhou-Anyang area, China”, in Water-Rock Interaction XIII‎^[3], CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 497:

     The relationship between nitrate concentration in drinking water and esophageal cancer has been inconclusive. We investigated this association in the representative high-risk areas of Linzhou and Anyang City.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Linzhou.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 林州 (zh) (Línzhōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lin Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1741, column 2