Gejiu
English
Alternative forms
- (dated) Kochiu
- (from Wade-Giles) Ko-chiu
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù).
Proper noun
Gejiu
- A county-level city in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
- [1973, Hsieh, Chiao-min, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 72-8717, OCLC 1204247698, OL 9249878M, page 97:
- The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.]
- 2010 June 3, “China's Gejiu area lead smelters face closure -industry”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 May 2022, Metals News:
- An estimated 50,000 tonnes of capacity is expected to be closed in 2010 among 53 lead smelters in the Shadian industrial section of Gejiu city in Yunnan province which has 500,000 tonnes of lead smelting capacity a year, local officials said Thursday.
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Translations
county-level city of Yunnan, China
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