"Yün-nan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 雲南／云南 (Yúnnán). Wade-Giles romanization: Yün²-nan².",
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          "ref": "1911, Edwin J. Dingle, Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 428",
          "text": "The mining industry was severely crippled by the Pathay Rebellion ; but prior to that date, although iron ore is most abundant, copper was mined on a much larger scale in order to provide for the requirements of the Empire, which formerly were almost entirely dependent upon the Yün-nan mines for their needs, which may be put at about 6,000 tons annually.",
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          "ref": "1927, Louise Jordan Miln, In a Yün-nan Courtyard, Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 914",
          "text": "Not all of Yün-nan is beautiful. Much of it is just roughly churned rock, much is flat and drab. But it has room for many pictures as well; Yün-nan is vast, China's third province in size, its area almost one fourth more than Great Britain's.",
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          "ref": "1963, Alvin K. Chock, “J. F. ROCK, 1884-1962”, in Newsletter of the Hawaiian Botanical Society, volume 2, number 1, Honolulu: University of Hawaii, pages 4-5",
          "text": "In 1922 Rock took up his residence in Li-chiang, the heart of the Na-khi country. His interest in these aboriginal people and their unique culture led him to make, a decade later, his life work the study of the Na-khi tribe of northwest Yün-nan Province. Using Li-chiang as a base, Rock explored and collected plants on the nearby Snow Range to the 17,000 foot level, in the Kingdom of Mu-li, and along the Burma-China border. By 1923 he was far into Yün-nan Province in southwest China, and the National Geographic Society took over the sponsorship of his explorations for more than a year.",
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          "ref": "1969, Norton Ginsburg, edited by Joseph Kitagawa, Understanding Modern China, Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59",
          "text": "Ninety-five per cent of the cultivated area of the country lies east of a line drawn from Tsitsihar (Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh) in northern Manchuria to K'un-ming in Yün-nan Province. This is eastern China, and within it is the Chinese ecumene.",
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          "text": "The mining industry was severely crippled by the Pathay Rebellion ; but prior to that date, although iron ore is most abundant, copper was mined on a much larger scale in order to provide for the requirements of the Empire, which formerly were almost entirely dependent upon the Yün-nan mines for their needs, which may be put at about 6,000 tons annually.",
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