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Hupeh

British  
/ ˈxuːˈpeɪ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Hubei

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Chinese embassy in Moscow has imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Hupeh province, the Communists acknowledged that 106,000 volunteers had been called out to strengthen an "impregnable" water-retention project.

From Time Magazine Archive

North of Hunan there were significant stirrings in Hupeh province.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Save for low hills on the Hupeh frontier, it runs the whole way through a flat, featureless country, cultivated by hand, almost every square foot of it.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

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