Wanrong
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Wanrong
- A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
- [1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511:
- According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.]
- A mountain indigenous township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
- 2021 October 18, Phillip Charlier, “Disaster-level wind and rain takes Taiwan by surprise as tropical storm passes by without making landfall”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the original on 19 October 2021:
- In Hualien County’s Wanrong Township, a group of six people camping were unable to cross the surging Hongye Stream in their SUVs, and requested assistance from the fire department.
Hualien County Fire Department deployed an excavator to cross the stream to rescue the four men and two women.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wanrong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3408, column 2
- Wanrong, Wan-jung, Wanjung at Google Ngram Viewer
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