Definition of Nan Ling

1. Noun. A mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Nan Ling

Namboothiri
Namib Desert
Namibia
Namibian
Namibian Sign Language
Namibians
Nammu
Namoi
Namoi River
Nampa
Namtar
Namtaru
Namur
Nan-chang
Nan-ning
Nan Ling (current term)
Nan River
Nana
Nanaimo
Nanaimo bar
Nanak
Nancere
Nances
Nanchang
Nancy Freeman Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Reagan gaze
Nancy Witcher Astor

Literary usage of Nan Ling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The Nan-ling (or southern range) which constitutes the most extensive mountain- system in ... Three mountain- passes are known to traverse tbe Nan-ling. ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"The southern or Nan-ling chain is a spur of the Himalayas. Commencing in Yun-nan, it bounds Kwang- se, Kwang-tung, ..."

3. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1906)
"Relief of the Land: The Kuen-lun Mountain System— The Nan-slum, Khingan, and Nan-ling Ranges—The Cross Ridges—Plateaux and Depressions. ..."

4. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"... and Nan-ling Ranges—77i< Cross Ridges—Plateaux and Depressions. The great frontier mountain systems of the Himalayas and Altai, enclosing the central ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"The Nan-ling (or southern range) which constitutes the most extensive mountains'siem in China ... Three mountain- passes are known to traverse the Nan-ling. ..."

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