Yun-nan

See also: Yunnan, Yúnnán, and Yün-nan

English

From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雲南／云南 (Yúnnán). Wade-Giles romanization: Yün²-nan².

Alternative form of Yunnan
- 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:
  Ta-li City, visible as the rectangular walled patch in the center of the lake plain, is the western rival of Kʻun-ming, capital of Yun-nan Province.
- 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China‎, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
  Orographic rain seems significant only when the monsoon current runs into the high plateaux of Yun-nan and Kuei-chou, and into the mountains of Ssu-ch'uan.

Yunnan — see Yunnan

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