Maoping

See also: Máopíng

English

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Etymology

From Mandarin 茅坪 (Máopíng).

Proper noun

Maoping

  1. A town in Zigui, Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, “The Eve of the Flood”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎[1], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
      Zigui, home of the Qu Yuan temple, was the first town to be completely relocated when, in 1999, the residents moved downstream to Maoping, not far from the dam site.

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