The Mã Pí Lèng Pass is a mountain pass on the Highway 4C in the territory of Pai Lung and Pa Vi commune,
Hà Giang province
Hà is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean.
Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is also the anglicized variation of Hạ.
Notable people with the surname Hà
*Hà Kiều Anh, Mis ...
, North Vietnam.
[Administration Atlas of Vietnam. Vietnam Natural Resources and Environment Publishing. Hà Nội, 2013.][Map of scale 1:50.000 sheet F-48-19-D. Cục Đo đạc và Bản đồ Việt Nam, 2004.]
It is approximately long, on the section of the Highway 4C connecting the towns of Đồng Văn and Mèo Vạc. It is at the altitude of 1,500 m (4,921 ft). The road was first built by
Yao,
H'mong,
Tay
Tay may refer to:
People and languages
* Tay (name), including lists of people with the given name, surname and nickname
* Tay people, an ethnic group of Vietnam
** Tày language
*Atayal language, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan (ISO 639 ...
and
Lolo minority people.
This section of the Highway 4C was constructed in the years of 1960.
Etymology
Mã Pí Lèng Pass is named after ''Mả Pí Lèng
ban'', a hamlet of
Hmong people
The Hmong people ( RPA: ''Hmoob'', Nyiakeng Puachue: , Pahawh Hmong: , ) are a sub-ethnic group of the Miao people who originated from Central China. The modern Hmongs presently reside mainly in Southwest China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chon ...
in Pai Lung commune. It is near also ''Mã Pí Lèng Peak''.
The peak is named for its shape, "Mả Pí Lèng" (馬鼻樑) - meaning "bridge of a horse's nose". The word is from
Hmong language
Hmong / Mong (; RPA: ''Hmoob,'' ; Nyiakeng Puachue: ; Pahawh: , ) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, northern Vietnam, Thailand ...
.
References
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Mountain passes of Vietnam
Landforms of Hà Giang province