"K'un-lun" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 崑崙 /昆仑 (Kūnlún), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-lun².",
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          "text": "On the south this hunge drainageless area is bordered throughout by the northernmost chain of the mighty mountain system of the K'un-lun and by the spurs it sends down toward the plains.",
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          "ref": "1966 May 31 [1966 March 11], “Managing Water Conservancy Through 500,000,000 Peasants”, in Translations on Communist China's Food and Agriculture, number 102, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), page 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:",
          "text": "The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm. Agricultural production was very backward. In 1958, the peasants of the whole district, relying on the great power of the people's communes and showing their spirit of self-reliance, used pebbles to build dikes which channeled the melted snow from the K'un-lun Mountain for irrigation.",
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          "text": "This city lies in an oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, a region which can be characterised by a near-lunar landscape where little life is found. The city lies at the foot of the K’un-lun mountains and jade is collected from two rivers, the Kara-kash and the Yurung-kash, meaning ‘Black Jade River’ and ‘White Jade River’ respectively.",
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          "text": "The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm. Agricultural production was very backward. In 1958, the peasants of the whole district, relying on the great power of the people's communes and showing their spirit of self-reliance, used pebbles to build dikes which channeled the melted snow from the K'un-lun Mountain for irrigation.",
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