Pingdingshan

• P'ing-ting-shan (Wade–Giles)
• Pingtingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 / 平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān).

• enPR: pĭng′dĭng′shän′
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: Ping‧ding‧shan

Pingdingshan

1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
   • 2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History‎^[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:

     Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.

   • 2021 November 11, David Stanway, Xihao Jiang, Shanghai newsroom, “China coal's last hurrah comes too late for old mining towns”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 11 November 2021, Energy‎^[4]:

     On the edges of an old and depleted mine on the rugged outskirts of Pingdingshan in central China's Henan province, workers sift through dunes of low-grade coal, looking to extract every last calorie of energy from the city's crumbling seams.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingdingshan.

• “Pingdingshan, P'ing-ting-shan, Ping-ting-shan, Pingtingshan”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingdingshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2