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Linfen Road

road in Shanghai, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ109413402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Linfen Road (Chinese: 临汾路) is an east-west thoroughfare located in the Jing'an District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Geography

Linfen Road commences at Dongzanjing in the west and concludes at Jiangyang South Road in the east, spanning a total length of 1,600 meters and a width of 20 meters. The road is named after Linfen, a city in Shanxi Province. The road was constructed from 1982 to 1984. The route is encircled by Pengpu New Village.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Linfen Road” is road in Shanghai, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Linfen, Road and road, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Linfen, Road and road is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109413402. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Linfen Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.