Zhanjiang
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛江 (Zhànjiāng).
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Zhanjiang
- A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
- [1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
- On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.]
- 2018 October 17, “Philippine navy vessel to take part in exercises in China”, in EFE, archived from the original on 17 October 2018:
- Personnel stood in formation as they bid farewell to their family and friends during a ceremony at the port to send the cargo ship and its crew off on its journey to Zhanjiang, southern China, where the ACMEX maneuvers will be held, an epa-efe journalist reports.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhanjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 1
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