Hefei

• (from Wade–Giles) Ho-fei, Hofei

From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi).

• enPR: hôʹfāʹ, hǔʹfāʹ

Hefei

1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Anhui, in central China.
   • 2003 January 9, Joseph Kahn, “Huge Demonstration in China, but Subject Is Traffic Safety”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 February 2021, World‎:

     Some 10,000 people took the streets in the eastern city of Hefei this week in what appears to have been the largest student demonstration since the Tiananmen Square human rights protests of 1989.

   • 2021 July 13, “A.I. is Ensuring an Orderly Vaccination in Hefei”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎, archived from the original on 13 July 2021‎:

     The vaccination campaign in the Luyang district of Hefei city is currently operating in an orderly and efficient manner, with all vaccination points running smoothly, thanks in large part to the effective utilization of A.I. technology.

• Luchow, Luzhou

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• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hefei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1259, column 3