Meaning of Yumen | Babel Free

Definitions

A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.

Examples

“Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.”

“Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants.”

“After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.”

“Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.”

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