I-lan

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Yilan. alt-of, alternative

    "Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Yilan. alt-of, alternative

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ila

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"Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).

Etymology 2

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 依蘭 (I¹-lan²).

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