Wuchuan

• Wu-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 吳川／吴川 (Wúchuān).

Wuchuan

1. A county-level city in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
   • 1981 December 12, Michael Weisskopf, “3,000 Chinese Veterans Said to Revolt in Protest Over Treatment”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2023‎:

     Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong. […]
     Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.

From Mandarin 武川 (Wǔchuān).

Wuchuan

1. A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 1937, “News Summary”, in Philippine Magazine‎, volume XXXIV, number 1, →OCLC, page 54:

     Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits comprising one the principal bodies of the irregular forces invading Suiyuan, surrender to Chinese government forces near Wuchuan after a mutiny against their leader, Wang Ying.

   • 2011 June 17, “Vestas says wins 49 MW turbine order in China”, in Mike Nesbit, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-04, Green Business News‎:

     The turbines would be installed at Dayuanshan wind farm in Wuchuan County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it said.

From Mandarin 婺川, later 務川／务川.

Wuchuan

1. An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
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