Foping

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 佛坪.

Proper noun

Foping

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an‎^[1], South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

     In Shaanxi Province there is one special nature reserve for them at Foping County, southwest of Xi'an and not far from the Qinling Ibis Colony.

   • 2017 April 5, Stephen Chen, “Panda filmed for first time breastfeeding cub in wild, says China state TV”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2017, China‎^[3]:

     A giant panda has been filmed for the first time in the wild breastfeeding a cub, according to state television.
     The behaviour was filmed by a local TV crew in Foping county in Shaanxi province, CCTV said.

   • 2019 December 11, Tom Daly, “China finds African swine fever in wild boar in Shaanxi”, in Susan Fenton, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 11 December 2019, Health News‎^[5]:

     Nine wild boar samples submitted by the provincial forestry bureau were examined and three from Foping county, in the south of Shaanxi, tested positive for the disease, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛坪 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Foping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1246, column 1