Bijie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 畢節 / 毕节 (Bìjié).

• enPR: bēʹjyěʹ^[1]

Bijie

1. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
   • [1972, Oliver J. Caldwell, “The Great Earth”, in A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-1945‎^[2], Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:

     At a small city called Pichieh, there was a mission operated by German Lutheran Sisters. […]
     There was a tremendous canyon beyond Pichieh. It was comparable to the gorge of the Salween on the Burma Road or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.]

   • [1978, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[3], numbers 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:

     In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting.]

   • 2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 June 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.

   • 2017 August 28, Philip Wen, “Mountain collapses on township in China's remote southwest, killing two”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[6], sourced from BEIJING, archived from the original on 12 July 2025:

     The landslide sent rubble sweeping over 34 homes in Zhangjiawan township in the city of Bijie, Guizhou province.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bijie”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 425, column 3