Yangling

A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

  1. A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
    • This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties...
    • In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent. - 2014 October 12, Ian...
    • After completing my Chinese language training, I was sent at the age of 20 to the Northwest A&F University in the Yangling District of Xiangyang^([sic – meaning Xianyang]), a city of some seven million people in Shaanxi...

Origin

From Mandarin 楊陵 /杨陵 (Yánglíng).