"Pao-t'ou" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 包頭／包头 (Bāotóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao¹-tʻou².",
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          "ref": "1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, pages 82–83:",
          "text": "He told us that we were about a hundred miles north and somewhat west of Pao-tʻou, and that the main road out of Pao-tʻou converged on our route.",
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          "ref": "1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:",
          "text": "Further to the west are several new mines associated with recent railway builind and the drive to develop industrial centres in the interior. At Shih-kuai-kou (Shihkwaikow), convenient to supply the new steel-works at Pao-t'ou (Paotow), the first three shafts were sunk in 1958. Reserves there are put at 700 million tons.",
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          "ref": "1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:",
          "text": "Based on local iron ore from Paiyun-opo and coal from Shih-kuai-kou, and again with ‘all-round Soviet assistance’, Pao-t’ou has been made the largest steel town on the Mongolian Plateau [26]. The role it was about to play became clear when the construction of the Pao-t’ou—Lan-chou Railway was begun in 1954 and, like that of several other vital lines, was completed well ahead of schedule [27].",
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          "ref": "1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:",
          "text": "The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery^([sic – meaning discovery]) location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.",
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