Yilan

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A county of Taiwan.

    "Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known."

  2. 2
    A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

    "Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders."

  3. 3
    A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.

    "From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand."

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"Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 宜蘭 (Yílán).

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 依蘭／依兰 (Yīlán).

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