Tokyo

Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”).

ja-r

Tokio (alternative obsolete)
Tōkyō (alternative Japanese alt-of romanization)
Tôkyô (alternative Japanese alt-of romanization)

A prefecture, the capital city of Japan.


Okinawa

/ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/

/ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/

Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Okinawa City
Okinawa Island
Okinawa Islands
Okinawa Prefecture


Nagasaki

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Nangasaki (alternative)
Nangasacq (alternative)
Nangasac (alternative)


Saga

Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)


Hiroshima

/hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/

/hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

/hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/

/hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.


Kyoto

Borrowed from Japanese 京(きょう)都(と) (Kyōto, literally “capital city”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital (of a country)”).


Mâcon

Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).

It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.

1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:

A city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.


Albi

A town and commune, the prefecture of Tarn department, Occitania, in southern France.


Shizuoka

From Japanese 静 (shizu, “calm”) and 岡 (oka, “hill”).


Rouen

Borrowed from French Rouen, from Latin Rotomagus. Replaced Middle English Rone, from Anglo-Norman Ron.

The prefecture of the department of Seine-Maritime, and the capital of the region of Normandy, France, on the Seine River.


Hokkaido

From Japanese 北(ほっ)海(かい)道(どう) (Hokkaidō, “North Sea Circuit”), from Middle Chinese 北海 (pək-hʌi˧˥, “Northern sea”) + 道 (dáu, “Circuit”, a province-like administrative unit from Tang dynasty China).

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In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century, […]

2009, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea:

I took another look at the map, impressed by how useful random modern Earth knowledge was in this world. Tsia Mountain, which contained our dungeon, was within the Empire’s territory. Using the size of the mountain to estimate distance… Yeah, the Empire was pretty huge. How many Hokkaidos could even fit in here? More than a few. Not to mention that there’s dozens of dungeons marked on the map.

2019, Supana Onikage, translated by Quof, edited by K. “Kitty-tama” Jordan, Lazy Dungeon Master, volume 5, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

The second largest island of Japan, capital Sapporo.

Hokkaido

a northern largest island of Japan, or a prefecture based in itself


Montpellier

A large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France.


Nantes

Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire#English

The prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.


Vannes

A town and commune, a prefecture of Morbihan department, Brittany, France.


Ibaraki

茨城: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Mito.


Kyōto

Alternative spelling of Kyoto, a prefecture of Japan.


Chambéry

From French Chamberi, from Medieval Latin Chamberium << Cambariaco << Cambariacum << Camefriacum, of uncertain origin, possibly Gaulish *camboritos (“bent ford”); see Breton Kemper. More at Chambéry.

A city and prefecture, the capital of Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.


Laval

en-proper noun

Laval (countable and uncountable, plural Lavals)

A town and commune, a prefecture of Mayenne department, Pays de la Loire, France.


Nagano

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)野(の) (Nagano).


Kagoshima

From Japanese 鹿(か)児(ご)島(しま) (Kagoshima).

A prefecture in southwestern Japan, on the south coast of the island of Kyushu.


Kumamoto

Borrowed from Japanese 熊本(くまもと) (Kumamoto).

In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).

2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:

A prefecture in southwestern Japan, on the island of Kyushu.


Aichi

Borrowed from Japanese 愛(あい)知(ち) (Aichi).

آيْتْشِي

Aichi prefecture, in Southern central of Japan


Osaka

From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) — the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.

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A prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan.


Hainan

c. 1600s, from Mandarin 海南 (Hǎinán). Doublet of Hainam and Hailam.

Hai-nan (alternative)
Ainan (alternative obsolete)
Haynan (alternative obsolete)

China Central Television reported that the quake, centered in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province, left 5,000 people homeless. Hundreds of people slept on the ground, wrapped in heavy blankets to ward off cold.

1990 April 27, “BIG QUAKE KILLS 115 PEOPLE IN CENTRAL CHINA”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-28:

autonomous prefecture
autonomous prefecture

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
w:Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

A Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Qinghai, China. Official name: Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.


Fukui

Borrowed from Japanese 福(ふく)井(い) (Fukui).


Ishikawa

en-proper noun

Ishikawa (countable and uncountable, plural Ishikawas)

Borrowed from Japanese 石川(いしかわ) (Ishikawa).

Ishikawa prefecture, a prefecture in Northern central region of Japan.


Aomori

Borrowed from Japanese 青(あお)森(もり) (Aomori).


Ōsaka

Alternative spelling of Osaka, a prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan.


Fukuoka

Borrowed from Japanese 福(ふく)岡(おか) (Fukuoka).


Saitama

Borrowed from Japanese 埼玉(さいたま) (Saitama).


Chiba

Borrowed from Japanese 千(ち)葉(ば) (Chiba).


Niigata

Borrowed from Japanese 新潟(にいがた) (Nīgata).


Okayama

Borrowed from Japanese 岡山(おかやま) (Okayama).


Oita

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おおい)分(た) (Ōita).


Toyama

Borrowed from Japanese 富(と)山(やま) (Toyama).


Wakayama

Borrowed from Japanese 和(わ)歌(か)山(やま) (Wakayama).


Miyazaki

Borrowed from Japanese 宮崎(みやざき) (Miyazaki).


Kashgar

Transliteration of Russian Кашга́р (Kašgár), from Persian کَاشْغَر (kâšġar).

transliteration

Cascar (alternative)
Cashgar (alternative)
Cashkar (alternative)
Kaschgar (alternative)
Kashghar (alternative)
Kâshghar (alternative)
Kāshghar (alternative)

The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles).

2017 May 11, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-03-09:

In one year, Kashgar Prefecture, which has a population of 4 million, has carried out mandatory checks for practically its entire population, said Yang Yanfeng, deputy director of Kashgar’s propaganda department. She characterized the checkups as a public health success story, not a security measure.

2017 December 17, Gerry Shih, “AP Exclusive: Digital police state shackles Chinese minority”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-04-28:

In addition, in January 2019, the Hong Kong-based security services company Frontier Services Group (FSG) announced on its website that it had signed an agreement with local XUAR officials to build a training facility in Kashgar prefecture, XUAR.

2019, “CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA ANNUAL REPORT 2019”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, archived from the original on 2020-06-26, page 209:

Authorities in Kashgar prefecture in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China say they have completed tests on more than 4.7 million residents. It follows the country's latest outbreak at the weekend.

2020 October 28, “Coronavirus digest: Italy posts record infection numbers as Europe locks down”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2020-10-28, News:

A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.


Akita

Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita).


Yamagata

Borrowed from Japanese 山県 (Yamagata), 山方 (Yamagata), 山形 (Yamagata) or 山像 (Yamagata).


Fukushima

Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima).

Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi.

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:


Yamaguchi

Borrowed from Japanese 山口(やまぐち) (Yamaguchi).


Tokushima

Borrowed from Japanese 徳(とく)島(しま) (Tokushima).


Kochi

Borrowed from Japanese 高(こう)知(ち) (Kōchi).


Kōchi

Alternative spelling of Kochi (city in Japan)


Tottori

Borrowed from Japanese 鳥取(とっとり) (Tottori).


Hyogo

Borrowed from Japanese 兵(ひょう)庫(ご) (Hyōgo).


Iwate

Borrowed from Japanese 岩(いわ)手(て) (Iwate).

A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Morioka.


Miyagi

Borrowed from Japanese 宮(みや)城(ぎ) (Miyagi).

Miyagi prefecture is located in the Tōhoku region, in the northeastern part of Japan.


Tochigi

Borrowed from Japanese 栃(とち)木(ぎ) (Tochigi).

A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Utsunomiya.


Gunma

Borrowed from Japanese 群(ぐん)馬(ま) (Gunma).

A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Maebashi.


Kanagawa

Borrowed from Japanese 神奈(かな)川(がわ) (Kanagawa).


Yamanashi

Borrowed from Japanese 山梨(やまなし) (Yamanashi).


Shimane

Borrowed from Japanese 島(しま)根(ね) (Shimane).


Kagawa

Borrowed from Japanese 香(か)川(がわ) (Kagawa).

A prefecture of Japan. Its capital is Takamatsu.


Ehime

A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Matsuyama.


Carcassonne

/ˌkɑːkəˈsən/

/ˌkɑːkəˈsɒn/

/ˌkɑɹkəˈsən/

An old walled city, the prefecture of Aude department, Occitania, France.


Altay

From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.

The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946.

1989, 马寅 [Ma Yin], editor, 中国少数民族 [China's Minority Nationalities], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:

In January 2010, a blizzard of such force which had not occurred in six decades attacked the Altay Prefecture, and the minimum temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

2014, 李欣凭 [Li Xinping], 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:

When Saliye Hobay, a Kazak ethnic woman born in Altay Prefecture in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was laid off in 2002 after the clothing factory in which she had worked for six years went bankrupt, she fell into momentary depression.

2015 August 27, Liu Xinlian, “The Joy of Work”, in Beijing Review, volume 58, number 35, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:

Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists.

2022 February 5, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-05, Olympics:

Torchbearer Dinigeer Yilamujiang hails from the mountainous terrain of Xinjiang's Altay prefecture.

2022 February 9, “Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-02-09:

A prefecture in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.


Quimper

A city, the prefecture of Finistère department, Brittany, France.


Périgueux

A commune, the prefecture of the department of Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.


Blois

Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire#English

A city and commune, the prefecture of Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.


Aksu

Borrowed from Uyghur ئاقسۇ (aqsu, literally “white river”), from Chagatai آقسُو (Āqsū), اکسو (Aksū).

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The representative took the hint, and decided after consulting the masses to approach the Aksu Prefecture Administrative Office. When they arrived for negotiations, the office made an emergency call to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee in Urumqi, which telegraphed back that the problem should be dealt with on the spot.

1995, Gregor Benton, Alan Hunter, editors, Wild Lily, Prairie Fire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:

Shaya prison is located in remote Aksu Prefecture, about seven hundred miles southwest of the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.

2013, Paul A. Marshall, Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.

2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century, Routledge, page 197:


Hotan

Khotan (alternative)
Khotän (alternative)

Today in Hotan Prefecture, including Pishan, Moyu, Lop, Qira, Yutian and Minfeng counties–places under the jurisdiction of ancient Khotan State which once dominated the southern route of the Silk Road–818 cobbled canals with a combined length of 1,500 kilometres have been built. Thus, melted snow from the Kunlun Mountains irrigates the prefecture's 200,000 hectacres of farmland.

1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:

Hotan is located in southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is an oasis town in the Tarim Basin, north of the Kunlun Mountains and south of the Taklamakan Desert. Hotan Prefecture is a multinational area: 96 percent Uyghur and 3 percent Han.

2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “A discovery of folk gems in Hotan”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 21, column 3:

It is not uncommon to find Uyghurs, particularly from Hotan and Kashgar in southern Xinjiang, – perceived by the authorities as anti-government hotspots – reporting that half or more of their immediate family members are in a mix of political education camps, pre-trial detention, and prison. For example, an interviewee said her husband, his 4 brothers, and their 12 nephews – that is, all the men in the family – have been detained in political education camps since 2017.

2018, Maya Wang, ““Eradicating Ideological Viruses” China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims”, in Human Rights Watch, →OCLC:

ByteDance has also been working with Xinjiang authorities under a program called “Xinjiang Aid,” whereby Chinese companies open subsidiaries or factories in Xinjiang and employ locals who have been detained in the camps. Its operations are centered on Hotan, an area of Xinjiang considered backward by the Communist Party and where the repression has been among the most severe.

2019 November 28, Anna Fifield, “TikTok’s owner is helping China’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang, report finds”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2019-11-28:


Tacheng

More than 13,000 geese were destroyed in Tacheng, in the Xinjiang autonomous region, after about 500 died of H5N1 avian flu, China's Agriculture Ministry reported.

2005 June 11, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29:

Late on the night of August 26, 1855, an inferno raged through the Russian trade concession in the Qing frontier town of Tacheng.[…]
In 1766, less than ten years after the conquest of Xinjiang, Qing forces founded a small outpost on the farthest western edge of their rapidly expanding new empire. They named it Suijingcheng, or "Pacification Town," a name that reflected an ongoing reality in this volatile region, as attempts to pacify this newly conquered area would occupy officials and administrators for much of the next two centuries. But the nature of this process of pacification in this isolated settlement, which in later years would come to be known as Tacheng, evolved over time

2010, Judd Kinzley, “Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang”, in Sherman Cochran, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, China on the Margins, Cornell University East Asia Program, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, the day before her disappearance, Munira went to the Ghulja city Public Security Bureau, where she requested permission to videochat with her husband, who is serving his sentence in Shiho (Wusu) city, in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture’s Tarbaghatay (Tacheng) prefecture. The police reportedly denied her request.

2021 April 7, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Wife of Jailed Uyghur Taxi Driver Jailed For Weeping in Front of a Foreigner”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2021-04-07:


Liangshan

Xiao Fuhua, 33, whose wife and three children are in Liangshan, in southern Sichuan Province, said he has been unable to reach his family.[…]
It's said that the earthquake in Liangshan is not very big, but I'm still worried because my family lives in a mountainous area. And once an earthquake strikes Langshan^([sic – meaning Liangshan]) it will be very terrible."

2008 May 14, David Barboza, “Workers on Chinese coast struggle after devastating earthquake back home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-14, Asia Pacific:

Every two weeks, when the students, ages 6 to 15, return from boarding school, they climb a chain of 17 bamboo ladders, secured to a sheer cliff face and leading some 2,625 feet up, according to reports.
Locals say the ladders — which lead through treacherous terrain in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province — have been there nearly as long as the village.

2016 May 27, Lindsey Bever, “Chinese schoolkids climb a 2,625-foot cliffside ladder to get home. Soon, they’ll have stairs.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-02, World:

Two people were missing after the landslide in mountainous Sichuan province's Liangshan, while one person was pulled out alive, the government said in a statement on its official microblog.

2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, “Landslide in southwest China kills 23”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-03-22, Environment:

An autonomous prefecture of Sichuan, China


Xishuangbanna

/ˌʃiːʃwɑŋbɑnˈnɑː/

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西雙版納 /西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnnà), from Lü ᧑᧒ᦗᧃᦓᦱ (12pannaa) or ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂᦗᧃᦓᦱ (ṡiibṡoangpannaa) meaning twelve townships of rice-fields.

Hsishuangpanna (alternative)
Hsi-shuang-pan-na (alternative)

After a drive of nearly ten hours, through small villages of thatched houses built on stilts, we stop on the last hairpin bend halfway down the mountain. Below, brilliant green and glistening wet, lies Xishuangbanna, in China’s southernmost valley.

1980 [1978], Jan Bredsdorff, translated by Alice Roughton, Revolution tur/retur [To China and Back], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 164–165:

In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls.

2014 April 25, Andrew Jacobs, “In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-26, Asia Pacific:

A herd then consisting of 16 elephants left their home in Xishuangbanna 300 km further south in March last year and eventually settled in a protected habitat in Puer.

2021 August 9, David Stanway, “China's wild elephants head to safety after long trek”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-08-10:

An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China.

𑜉𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 𑜍𑜣 𑜉𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 𑜍𑜪

müṅ rī müṅ raṃ


Garzê

Recently, clues of mélanges have been found in the Garzê area.

1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 82:

The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.

1992, Robert Strauss, “Kham & the Sichuan Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155:

The London-based Tibet Information Network said an intermediate court in Ganzi Prefecture, in Sichuan province, convicted the men on Monday on charges of detonating bombs, promoting independence for Tibet and illegally possessing guns and explosives. Ganzi borders Tibet and is home to many Tibetans.

[2002 December 6, “China Gives Death Sentences To 2 Tibetans”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Washington Post Foreign Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-06-01:

Regardless, Beijing was presented with a piece of material evidence that new troubles were fermenting in Tibet. At the time, a Buddhist scripture allegedly emerged from a Garzê monastery, predicting ominously: "In the Year of Pig (1959) the world will become one of the beasts, and religion will decline. In the Year of Rat (1960) the Heaven will speak, and Bodhisattvas will come from all directions."

2020, Xiaoyuan Liu, To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Hiring practices in Tibet revealed state-sponsored discrimination against Tibetans as an official announcement on May 25 in Lithang barred individuals who have participated in “separatist activities” and those whose family members have “exited the country illegally”, reported rights group, International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). In one previous instance, the Chinese government issued the same criteria for recruiting police personnel by Kardze Prefecture government in 2017.[…]
In an announcement on May 2 for police recruitment in Dabpa County People’s Court in Kardze Prefecture, it said that “those who have received or are receiving subsidies from illegal overseas fund organizations” are disqualified in addition to the aforementioned clauses in the case of Lithang.

[2020 June 15, Choekyi Lhamo, “Systemic discrimination for Tibetans involved in “separatist activities””, in Phayul.com, archived from the original on 2020-06-16:

Thousands of officials in Ganzi, a Tibetan region of Sichuan Province, have been paired with families to collect information and give out gifts of rice, cooking oil and beatific portraits of Mr. Xi — all to hammer home his message of an encompassing Chinese identity, from Xinjiang in the west to the contested island of Taiwan in the east.
“In the future I’ll be a member of your family, too,” Shen Yang, the Communist Party secretary of Ganzi, called Kardze in Tibetan, told one household, according to a local newspaper.[…]
A decade ago, Ganzi was a center of protests by Tibetans who set fire to themselves, sometimes fatally, to denounce Chinese rule. The new campaign appears intended to eradicate any remnants of potential resistance.

[2022 October 11, Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, “One Nation Under Xi: How China’s Leader Is Remaking Its Identity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-11, Asia Pacific:

An autonomous prefecture of Sichuan, China.


Enshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 恩施 (Ēnshī).

Enshih (alternative)
En-shih (alternative)

The line was strung above China’s so-called Grand Canyon, located in Enshi Prefecture in Hubei Province. It is a remote spot, rarely visited by tourists and unexplored even by experienced climbers or other extreme-sport athletes.

2012 April 26, Mark McDonald, “A Man on a Wire Above China’s ‘Grand Canyon’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-11:

An autonomous prefecture of Hubei, China.


Ngari

Tibet is divided into four parts; Ngari (Neri), a pretty large country, is the fourth ; it lies to the south, and borders on countries inhabited by people who are known by the names of Lataka and Gougoutsie.

1827, George Timkowski, Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China in the Years 1820-1821, volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 444:

My first step was to contact a colleague from Hong Kong, the sexologist Li Kai-Sing, whose work in Tibet before the Communist takeover had earned him an international reputation as an authority on polyandry. He promptly contacted a Ngari herdsman name Lo Wu, who had worked with him in the past and who was a member of a love commune which numbered eighteen wives and forty-three husbands. Lo Wu agreed to introduce me to all the members of his commune, and to assist me in every way possible as I attempted to gather the data I sought.
My next step was to learn everything I could about the Ngari herdsmen's culture and social mores, so that when I finally did arrive in Tibet I'd be able to meet my subjects on what was more or less their own level. Unfortunately, the literature on Ngari culture and social mores was scant, because very few investigators other than Li Kai-Sing had set foot in that godforsaken corner of the world.

1968, Troy Conway, Keep It Up, Rod!, Warner Communications, published 1973, →OCLC, page 10:

At the same time, in the western areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Ngari area also launched a Buddhism revival movement. As it appeared on the upper route of the Ngari area, Tibetologists called it the ^([sic]) "the upper route spread of Tibetan Buddhism".

2003, 尕藏加 [Ga Zangjia], Tibetan Religions (Series of Basic Information of Tibet of China), China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71:

I had met him in Ngari in 1997, when he was Commissioner of Ngari Prefecture, and struck up a friendship with him through our mutual love of photography.

2005, Weidong (成卫东) Cheng, 雪域寻梦 [Dreams of Snow Land], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 187:

A prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

阿里

prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region, China


Nevers

en-proper-noun

Nevers (countable and uncountable, plural Nevers or Neverses)

A prefecture of Nièvre department, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France


Aurillac

A prefecture of Cantal department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.


Meknes

Borrowed from French Meknès, from Arabic مكناس (maknās), from Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ (amknas).


Saint-Brieuc

St. Brieux, Saskatchewan

A city and commune, the prefecture of Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.


Golog

41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.

2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:

The February 1982 National Geographic listed a figure of between 80,000 and 90,000 Gologs, living in six counties of the remote Golog Tibetan Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China. A total of 100,343 people lived in the Golog Prefecture in 1953, but by 1964 the population had diminished to only 56,071. Thousands of Golog migrated from the area. Thousands more were either killed in battle or starved to death by the Chinese army.

2004, Paul Hattaway, Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:

The authorities, who said they had restored order in the region, said 6 people were arrested and 89 others had “surrendered” to the police. The attack involved monks from the Ragya Monastery in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Golog in Qinghai Province.

2009 March 22, David Barboza, “Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-05-01, Asia Pacific:

A non-profit project jointly initiated by Tencent Sports and the Yao Ming Foundation has brought students from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province a long way to the court of 2019 FIBA World Cup, connecting audience members’ hearts together during the halftime.

2019 September 13, “Tencent Sports Public Service Project Shines at FIBA World Cup”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-30:

The epicentre of the Qinghai quake, which struck at 3:44 p.m. (0844 GMT), was located in Madoi county in the Golog prefecture at a depth of 14 km (8.7 miles), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

2025 January 8, Ryan Woo, “Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes China near source of Yellow River”, in Christian Schmollinger, Jan Harvey, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-01-08:

A Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Qinghai, China.


Bobigny

A town and commune, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France.


Kyôto

Alternative spelling of Kyoto, a prefecture of Japan.


Sizhou

From Hanyu Pinyin Sìzhōu, from the Mandarin pronunciation of both Chinese 泗州 (Sìzhōu, “zhou on the Si River”) and 肆州 (Sìzhōu), used as both the name of the prefectures, subprefectures, &c. and their seats of government.

der

(historical) A prefecture of Shanxi, in imperial China

肆州

Imperial prefecture and prefectural seat in Shanxi