Wulipu

See also: Wǔlǐpù

English

Map including Wu-li-p'u (Wulipu) (DMA, 1985) →OCLC

Alternative forms

• Wu-li-p'u (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 五里鋪 (Wǔlǐpù, literally “five Li relay station for post horses”).

Proper noun

Wulipu

1. A town in Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
   • 2009 January 14, “Excavation Report on Zuozhong Chu Tombs in Jingmen”, in The Institute of Archaeology CASS‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 February 2022:

     Zuozhong Chu tombs are located in Wulipu town, 45 km south of Jingmen City, Hubei province.

   • 2020 March 6, Yanqing Wang, “第一户湖北籍蜂农已顺利返乡，其他近200户有望近期全部返回 绿会复工部 [The First Beekeeper from Hubei Province Has Returned Without a Hitch, And Nearly 200 Others Are Expected to Return Soon CBCGDF Anti-Epidemic and Resumption Working Group]”, in China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 April 2020:

     At midnight on March 1st, Liu, a bee farmer born in Hubei, and her family finally arrived in the hometown, Wulipu Town, with over 500 boxes of honey.[...]Although the driver is Hubei native, the authority of Wulipu Town insists that only when the driver obtains an effective health certificate can he leave.

   • 2020, Fan Yang, Guangqing Chi, Ge Wang, Shirui Tang, Yunting Li, Cong Ju, “Untangle the complex stakeholder relationships in rural settlement consolidation in China: a social network approach”, in Land‎^[3], volume 9, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     The village of Chenchi is located in the town of Wulipu, Hubei province in central China, with the163 coordinates 111° E and 30° N (Figure 3).

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五里鋪 (Wǔlǐpù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Wulipu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.