Wushan

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān).

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Wushan

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • 1905 June 17, E. H. Wilson, “LEAVES FROM MY CHINESE NOTE-BOOK”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle[2], number 964, page 384:
      On the cliffs opposite Kui Spiræa Thunbergii occurs. It is quite common in the Wushan gorge, but I did not find it nearer Ichang than here.
    • 1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Homo erectus”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:
      According to Gu and Fang (1991a), two human fossils were unearthed from this site situated in Wushan County in the eastern part of Sichuan Province in central China.
    • 2008 August 2, Andrew Torchia, “Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet”, in Andrew Roche, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications‎[5]:
      Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced on Friday for taking bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.3 million) from road building companies, Xinhua said.
  2. A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
  3. A village in Wushan, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.

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References

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wushan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1

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