Runan

A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

Proper noun

  1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
    • Peasants of Junan County, Honan, planted more than 120,000 mou of sesame seed in 1970. Average yield per mou was 19.7 percent higher than that in 1969 and a new record for the county. Delivery of edible oil crops to the...
    • Tian Weiqin had been stationing his army in Runan county since 1921. Conflicts between troops and the local community did not occur until the defeat of the Zhili Army in 1924. - 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the...
    • The policeman in Runan county, in the poor central province of Henan, has been charged with “endangering public security by dangerous means” after crashing his police van into two street lamp poles, crushing five people...

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝南 (Rǔnán).