Dongcheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東城 /东城 (Dōngchéng).

In Beijing’s Dongcheng District where 560,000 residents live, some 936 neighborhood stores, restaurants, health clinics, nurseries, and cultural and educational centers have been established.

1981, Laurence J.C. Ma, “Urban Housing Supply in the People's Republic of China”, in Urban Development in Modern China, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236:

Dongcheng Wenhuaguan, the culture museum in Dongcheng, acting like an events organizer, also has a similar group that meets every Saturday.

2009 January 2, Gan Tian, “Learning Peking-opera pieces”, in Beijing Today, number 396, →OCLC, page 11:

The soul of old Beijing lives on throughout Dongcheng District, where you'll find the city’s top historic sites and idyllic hutong worth getting lost in.

2015, Stephen Brewer, John Rambow, Caroline Trefler, editors, Fodor's Beijing, 5th edition, Fodor's, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:

Beijing so far has reported over 300 cases under the current wave, and authorities on Saturday banned city-wide dining services starting Sunday to May 4 -- an attempt to curb infections during a holiday that is typically an annual peak consumption period.
"It will have a definite impact on sales," a restaurant employee surnamed An told AFP, as she scanned for customers around Beijing's Dongcheng district -- home to historic attractions like the Forbidden City.

2022 May 1, “Beijing tourist sites empty in Covid-stalked public holiday”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-05-01:

The KMT’s act of self-humiliation is reminiscent of what happened in 1948, when it was being buffeted by the storm of the Chinese Civil War.
In January of that year, a group of KMT members established the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (中國國民黨革命委員會), which supported the CCP’s call, as one of its “May Day slogans,” to establish a democratic coalition government.
In so doing, the committee sent a friendly message to the CCP.
Today, the committee is a subordinate organization of the CCP, with its headquarters on humble Donghuangchenggen S Street in Beijing’s Dongcheng District (東城).

2022 September 3, 愚工 [Yu Kung], “China shuns friendliness of KMT”, in Julian Clegg, transl., Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-03, Editorials, page 8:


Shijingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石景山 (Shíjǐngshān).

The iron and steel plant of Shih-ching-shan is situated on the Yung-ting Ho, 14 mi. west of the city centre. This plant, first opened in 1920, was completed in 1937 and produced 80,000 tons of pig iron at its peak under Japanese rule. The plant was greatly expanded by the Communists, and annual production increased to more than five times its previous capacity. Beyond Shih-ching-shan, at the end of a rail spur, 20 mi. west of the city centre, are the coal mines of Men-t'ou-kou.

[1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1:

A six-story building was recently completed in Shihchingshan District, Peking Municipality, solving the housing problem for some 130 faculty members of primary and middle schools in the district.

[1978 May 12 [1978 April 26], “Peking Teacher Housing”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 93, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page K 6:

With the start of the ceremony minutes away Friday night, Zhang’s father had come in from the apartment across the hallway on the second floor of the austere building in the Shijingshan District on Beijing’s West Side.

2008 August 8, Harvey Araton, “In Living Room, a Window Into the Games”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-06, Olympics:

In the Shijingshan neighborhood, vaccinated residents were given free entry into all parks — a measure that some Internet users called “a little stingy.”

2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-05, Asia & Pacific:


Mentougou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝 /门头沟 (Méntóugōu).

Men-t'ou-kou (alternative)
Mentoukou (alternative)

Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more.

2023 July 31, Chris Buckley, “Two Dead as Heavy Rains Batter Beijing, Putting City on Alert”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-31, Asia Pacific:

State television showed footage of the military airdropping food and ponchos to residents in the Mentougou district in western Beijing, which has been hit especially hard.

2023 August 1, Lily Kuo, Theodora Yu, Lillian Yang, “First the rain, then the mud: Typhoon wreaks havoc in Chinese capital”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-05:


Daxing

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 大興 /大兴 (Dàxīng, “Greatly Prosperous”).

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The area, Shoubaozhuang, is not one of the affluent, gated residential compounds springing up around Beijing, but a poor village of rural migrants toiling at low-paying jobs. It was chosen, along with 15 other areas in the Daxing district of Beijing, to be walled off to outsiders, in what officials say is an experimental effort to curb crime. The authorities say the experiment has been a success  the Communist Party-run People’s Daily said the crime rate in the walled villages in Daxing district dropped by 73 percent from April to July this year  and the “walled village” concept is being quickly expanded to other districts outside Beijing’s center that are populated by migrant workers.

2010 October 3, Helen Gao, “Migrant ‘Villages’ Within a City Ignite Debate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-09-28, BEIJING JOURNAL:

The fire broke out Saturday evening in a two-story structure in the Daxing District, about 11 miles south of the Chinese capital’s prosperous downtown. Around 6 p.m., the flames began consuming the building, and thick smoke spilled into the air. Firefighters spent three hours battling the fire, according to a news release from Daxing officials.

2017 November 19, Chris Buckley, “Fire Kills at Least 19 in Beijing Apartment Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-19, Asia Pacific:


Gaoyao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高要 (Gāoyāo).

A man answering the phones at the city government of Gaoyao, located 230 kilometers to the northwest of Hong Kong, confirmed late Monday afternoon that pigs were dying there.[…]
Hong Kong media were full of lurid accounts Monday of pigs staggering around with blood pouring from their bodies in Gaoyao and neighboring Yunfu, both in Guangdong Province.

2007 May 7, Keith Bradsher, “Concerns raised on China's global health disclosures”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17, Asia Pacific:

A propaganda department of Zhaoqing city’s Gaoyao district, which oversees Lubu town with a population of more than 70,000, said police were injured.
In a post on its official Sina Weibo account, Gaoyao’s Communist Party committee propaganda department said that around noon “some ordinary people who are unaware of the truth led by some troublemakers attempted to storm the Lubu town government” and attacked and injured some police officers who were trying to maintain order. It said those people should surrender themselves to police and people at the government offices should leave the site immediately.[…]
The post by the Gaoyao propaganda department was removed later Sunday afternoon. Photos of the protest also posted on Sina Weibo had earlier apparently been taken down by censors.

2016 July 3, Louise Watt, “Police injured as residents protest incinerator in China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-31:

Secondly, associated demonstration of the breakdown structure and the progress of government work has been made on government web portals. The governments of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province and Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, have set up special webpages to disclose information about each work task of the government.

2021, He Tian, Yanbin Lv, editors, Assessing Government Transparency in China (2018), →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 59–60:

A district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.


North Northamptonshire

East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire#English

A unitary authority of Northamptonshire, England, created on 1 April 2021 through the merger of Corby borough, East Northamptonshire district, Kettering borough, and the borough of Wellingborough; Northamptonshire County Council was also abolished.


Çanakkale

Borrowed from Turkish Çanakkale, from Ottoman Turkish چناق قلعه (Çanak Kal'e, literally “fortress of çanak”), so named from the great manufacture of coarse earthenware carried on in and around the town.

fortress of <i class="Latn mention" lang="tr">çanak</i>

A district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey.


Cooch Behar

Koch Bihar (alternative)
Kuch Bahar (alternative)

Borrowed from Kamta কোচবিহাৰ (küsbihar).


Mathura

A city and district of Agra division, Uttar Pradesh, India.


Ujjain

Azin (alternative)
Ujjayini (alternative)
Ujjayani (alternative)
Oojyne (alternative archaic)


qRD

qathet Regional District
qathet Regional District#English

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

Abbreviation of the qathet Regional District: a regional district of British Columbia, Canada. Seat: Powell River.


qathet

Ellipsis of the qathet Regional District: a regional district of British Columbia, Canada. Seat: Powell River.


qathet Regional District

From Comox term for "working together" + regional district.

Regional District of qathet (alternative)

City of Powell River
City of Powell River#English

A regional district of Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. Seat: City of Powell River.


Powell River

Powell River Regional District
en:Powell River

A river in Powell River, Powell River, Regional District of Powell River, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada, whose source is Powell Lake, and whose mouth is on the Salish Sea; Both the river and its source, the lake, are named for Israel Wood Powell, 19th-century Commissioner of Indian Affairs for British Columbia.


Thoothukudi

Borrowed from Tamil தூத்துக்குடி (tūttukkuṭi).

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தூத்துக்குடி

a port city and district in Tamil Nadu, India.


Alappuzha

Transliteration of Malayalam ആലപ്പുഴ (ālappuḻa).


Algoma

Northeastern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario#English

A district and census division of Northeastern Ontario, Ontario, Canada; in full, Algoma District.


Lochalsh

From the Scottish Gaelic Loch Aillse, "foaming lake".

A district of mainland Scotland, currently part of the Highland council area.


Murshidabad

Transliteration of Bengali মুর্শিদাবাদ (murśidabad).


Xuhui

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 徐匯 /徐汇 (Xúhuì, literally “Xu Confluence”), a clipping of 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (Xújiāhuì, literally “Xu Family Confluence”) in reference to the prominence of the Xu family in the area during the Ming dynasty and the previous junction of several streams and canals in the district's Xujiahui neighborhood.

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Hsu-hui (alternative)
Siccawei (alternative)
Zikawei (alternative)
Ziccawei (alternative)

Because of the pressures exerted, in some areas it was unnecessary for the ch'ü IPPE committees to take any action at all. For example, in Hsühui ch'ü all the firms which the IPPE Committee had intended to inspect came forward and made voluntary confessions, apologizing for their sins.

[1969, John Gardner, “The Wu-fan Campaign in Shanghai: A Study in the Consolidation of Urban Control”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 521:

(Hsinlo) and (Hsuchen) neighborhoods in Hsuhui District, which have offered educational classes for educated youths since September and November, respectively, have recently invited returning educated youths to attend these classes free of charge.

[1978 December 15 [1978 December 13], “Shanghai Assists Youths Returning from Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shanghai City Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page G 2:

According to a report from Xuhui District, over 40 of its intersections are blocked.

2018 [1989 June], Rongji Zhu, “Get Organized and Maintain Shanghai's Stability”, in Zhu Rongji on the Record: The Shanghai Years, 1987-1991, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=Fe_WDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT327&lpg=PT327:

Another boy and a woman were also stabbed, but their injuries were not life-threatening, according to a statement from the police in the Xuhui district of Shanghai.

2018 June 28, Austin Ramzy, “Shanghai Knife Attack Kills Two Schoolchildren”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-28, Asia Pacific:


Jing'an

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靜安 /静安 (Jìng'ān, literally “Quiet & Peaceful”) after the most prominent local monastery.

Jingan (alternative)
Ching-an (alternative)

With coffee shops now as their rivals — among them the mammoth 30,000-square-foot storefront of Starbucks Reserve Roastery that opened in 2017 in Shanghai’s Jing’an district — teahouses have had to adapt.

2021 October 12, Ligaya Mishan, “In Shanghai, Teahouses Offer Both Community and Solitude”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-12, Food Matters:

Residents of a compound in Jing’an district saw the gates of neighboring compounds open over the past month — yet theirs remained locked. On Wednesday, about two dozen gathered at the gate, calling out to speak with a representative.

2022 May 28, Emily Wang Fujiyama, Si Chen, Joe McDonald, “Shanghai lockdown: Residents demand release, and some get it”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-27:


Minhang

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 閔行 /闵行 (Mǐnháng).

Innovations and new construction of the last decade have brought about remarkable changes in Shanghai’s industrial outlook. A dozen industrial districts, such as Minhang, Woosung and Pengpu, which have been built up or extended, have done much to remedy the inadequacies and overconcentration of the past.

1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “The Middle and Lower Yangtze Region”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 114:

Unlike the crowds of poor and elderly who often braved repeated arrest to protest the evictions, the opponents of the maglev line have mostly been members of the city's new and fast-growing middle class who live along the proposed train route, in the city's Minhang district.

2007 August 8, Howard W. French, “Dream of high-speed rail may prove Shanghai politician's final nightmare”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-02, Asia Pacific:

A resident of the Minhang district on Shanghai’s west side who asked to be identified only by her surname, Chen, said her household of five was given government food packages on March 30 and April 4. They included chicken, eggplant, carrots, broccoli and potatoes.

2022 April 7, Joe McDonald, “Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-04-07:

The sprawling district of Minhang in central Shanghai has implemented new lockdown measures to detect and control COVID-19 transmission risks, the district government said on Thursday.

2022 June 8, “Shanghai's Minhang district announces new lockdown”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-09, China:


Changning

/(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈnɪŋ/

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈnɪŋ/

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長寧 /长宁 (Chángníng, literally “Long Pacified”).

With the help of these repressive forces, Chang Ch’un-ch’iao’s regime managed to weld some unity in the administration. The Shanghai Revolutionary Committee was little more than a name, for it lacked mass support and roots in the districts and suburbs of the municipal areas. To remedy this, the formation of local Revolutionary Committees was given top priority. By the time I left in April, two key districts had set up such committees — the downtown area of Whangpoo and the western district of Changning.
Opposition was still strong in the city. In Changning District, where I lived, it took weeks of argument and compromise to get a workable committee set up.

1969, Neale Hunter, “The New Dispensation”, in Shanghai Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Cultural Revolution, New York, Washington, London: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272:

In an early 20th-century shikumen (stone gate) house on Lane 1376 Yuyuan Road is the Changning District Revolutionary Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and Editorial Offices of the Bolshevik ③ (Changning Qu Geming Wen Wu Chen Lie Guan: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; free).

2005, Shanghai (Insight Guides), Apa Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 189:

By early afternoon, 11 out of the approximately 20 people buried in the collapse had been pulled from the rubble. Their conditions were not immediately known.
The building is in the Changning district of China’s financial hub.

2019 May 16, “At least 9 trapped in Shanghai building collapse”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-13:

Reached by phone, a staff member of the labor protection department of Shanghai’s Changning district said officials were investigating the case but could not release any detail at this stage.

2021 January 5, Eva Dou, “China’s tech firms draw fire for brutal working hours after Pinduoduo employee’s death”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-05, Asia & Pacific:


Putuo

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普陀 (Pǔtuó), a clipped transcription of Sanskrit पोतलक (Potalaka, literally “Brilliance”), the name of the palace of the god or bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (known in China as the goddess or bodhisattva Guanyin) in the influential Flower Garland Sutra. The island in Zhejiang has been a center of Buddhist pilgrimage related to the worship of Guanyin since at least the Tang dynasty.

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The typhoon landed in the Putuo district of the city of Zhoushan, a major port in the east coast province of Zhejiang, at 12:30 p.m. (0430 GMT) on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing the China Meteorological Administration.

2021 July 25, Dominique Patton, Sophie Yu, “East China braces for typhoon In-fa after flooding in country's centre”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-25, China:

A district of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.

Satisfied, she poked at scraps of wood glowing in the small stove holding the wok, which stood on a pile of rubble outside her door in the slums of this city's Putuo District.[…]
Altogether, about 15,000 people live along with Mrs. Zhi in the Putuo slums, a raged swath of land on the northwestern edges of the city crowded with ramshackle miniature houses that were thrown up helter-skelter in the 1930's and 40's.

1987 January 5, Edward A. Gargan, “SHANGHAI JOURNAL; ERASING THE SLUMS? THE 64-SQUARE-FOOT QUESTION”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-07-06, World:

At one apartment complex in Shanghai’s Putuo district, residents fiercely protested after the residential committee put a U-lock on the door to their building on April 16.

2022 April 29, Huizhong Wu, Chen Si, “EXPLAINER: How China is using metal barriers to fight COVID”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-04-30:


Yangpu

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 楊浦 /杨浦 (Yángpǔ, literally “Poplar Bank”), a 1950 clipping of earlier 楊樹浦 /杨树浦 (Yángshùpǔ, literally “Poplar Tree Bank”), after the name of a creek that formerly ran through the area beside present-day Lanzhou Rd.

Yang-p'u (alternative)
Yangpoo (alternative)

Shanghai has built steelworks, chemical plants, and factories for machine tools. The one I visited in Yangpu, with 5,200 workers, manufactures about forty different types of machines; the factory is proudest of its grinding machines, some of which attain very great precision.

1966 April 7, Robert Guillain, “Shanghai's Repentant Capitalists”, in The Reporter, volume 34, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:

The actual turnover of leading cadres in district committees was not as sweeping as it was at the highest level of municipal government. For example, Chang Ching-piao, the First Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, after undergoing mass criticism and reform became the chairman of the Yangpu District Revolutionary Committee.

1973, Victor Nee, “Revolution and Bureaucracy: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution”, in China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present, 1st edition, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 365:

Now they, along with their 20-month-old daughter, Anna, rent a warehouse in the Wu Wei Creative Park, a government-owned space in the northern district of Yangpu.

2014 May 1, Casey Hall, “In Shanghai, a Warehouse Becomes a Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-29, Great Homes & Destinations:


Qingpu

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青浦 (Qīngpǔ, literally “Verdant Bank”), a 1542 combination of the name of 青龍 /青龙 (Qīnglóng), the principal local town at the time, and 浦 (pǔ, literally “riverbank”) after the many streams flowing into the Wusong River (now Suzhou Creek) in the area.

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Ching-pu (alternative)
Tsingpu (alternative)

The result has been that in response to a petition from the people of Chingpu, forwarded by the Shanghai Taotai, in whose jurisdiction the district lies, Viceroy Chou Fu, of Nanking, has informed the Waiwupu as to how matters are, with the request that, as Chingpu is not a Treaty port, nor a dependency of Shanghai district, the Waiwupu should communicate with the British and American Ministers in Peking and ask them to stop all further encroachments into Chingpu district.

[1905 June 16, “The Proposed Municipal Read to the Hills.”, in North-China Herald, volume LXXV, number 1975, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 587, column 2:

Although most of the new commuter towns are "characterless," according to Sun Jiwei, the local government's vice district chief in the Qingpu district, Zhujiajiao New Town, where Cambridge Watertown is situated, is an exception.

2006 April 20, Elaine Louie, “China 's New Home Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2006-10-28, Style:


Fengxian

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 奉賢 /奉贤 (Fèngxián, literally “offer to the worthy”), a 1726 modification of the earlier name 齊賢 /齐贤 (Qíxián, literally “equal to the worthy”).

Feng-hsien (alternative)
Fenghsien (alternative)
Fengsien (alternative)

At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.

1938 August 24 [1938 August 21], “Japanese Round Up Guerillas^([sic])”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CCVIII, number 3707, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 4:

He found a Rev. Dr. Arthur Cannon at an address on the Shanghai road near to Fengsien.

[1987, Ronald Hardy, “Escape”, in The Wings of the Wind (Fiction), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34:

At the Shanghai Fengxian District Huangpu River Flood Prevention Center, which was seeking an accountant, a man who answered the phone said: “We have female employees. We do not discriminate against women. But we want to hire more men, because this work includes night shifts. Women might be frightened to be alone in the building at night.”

2014 September 26, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Slyvia Zhang, “For Shanghai Jobs, Only ‘Normal Size’ Need Apply”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-19:


Wakey

Barnsely General? Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?

2008, Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Pudding Club:

Eddie: Alright well I'll steer right clear away from Wakey [Wakefield in West Yorkshire] County Council death squad then.

2014, Nicholas Rombes, 10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory:

Yorkshire is a bloody beautiful county. ... there are worse commutes than Manchester to 'Sheff' or 'Wakey' or 'Tarn' across this landscape, past the tough and tender towns and villages: Tintwistle, Edale, Stalybridge, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and the rest, overlooked by sombre ridges, nestled in those scooped Pennine hollows, dotted by dark, shining reservoirs.

2020, Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it:

metropolitan borough
metropolitan borough

(slang) Clipping of Wakefield: an industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.


Neuwied

A town and rural district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Cachar

Transliteration of Bengali কাছাড় (kachaṛ), from Sylheti ꠇꠣꠍꠣꠠ (xasaṛ).


Hailakandi

Transliteration of Sylheti ꠢꠣꠁꠟꠣꠇꠣꠘ꠆ꠖꠤ (hailaxandi).


Karimganj

Transliteration of Bengali করিমগঞ্জ (korimogonj).


Sumadija

From Serbo-Croatian Šumadija, from Шумадија. From šuma/шу̏ма (forest) + -džija/-џија (-ia).

Šumadija (alternative)
Sumadiya (alternative)
Sumadia (alternative)

Sumadija and Western Serbia
Sumadija and Western Serbia#English

Sumadija District
Sumadija District#English

A district of Sumadija and Western Serbia, Serbia; in full, Sumadija District.

Sumadija and Western Serbia

Шумадија и западна Србија / Šumadija i zapadna Srbija

Sumadija District

Шумадијски округ / Šumadijski okrug


Baiji

A city and district in Saladin governorate, northern Iraq.


Düzce

From Turkish Düzce, from Ottoman Turkish دوزجه (Düzce).


Lodhran

A city and district in Punjab, Pakistan.


Hexi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河西 (Héxī).

The husbands were among hundreds of rights lawyers, aides and activists rounded up in what is commonly referred to as the 709 crackdown, referring to the date of July 9 last year, when the sweeping campaign was launched.
Liu Ermin, wife of human rights activist Zhai Yanmin, and Wang Qiaoling, Li Wenzu and Fan Lili – the wives of lawyers Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang and activist Gou Hongguo – were taken away by Tianjin Hexi district police yesterday afternoon.

2016 July 30, Mimi Lau, “Chinese police hold four wives of rights activists seized in ‘709 crackdown’”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-08-01, China / Politics:


Da'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大安 (Dà'ān).

Workers of a lantern production factory in Da'an District, Zigong City, transport the finished lanterns.

2022 February 1, “In picture: Lunar New Year celebrations around the globe”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-14, World:


Bayan Obo

From Mongolian ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ
ᠣᠪᠤᠭᠠ (bayan obug-a, literally “rich ovoo (cairn)”).

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Bayan Obo is 146 km by road north of Baotou (population 1.5 million), where the ores are concentrated and smelted. The climate of Bayan Obo is extremely dry.[...]About 40,000 people live at Bayan Obo, most of whom work either directly in mining or in support activites.

1990, Lawrence J. Drew, Meng Qingrun, Sun Weijun, “The Bayan Obo iron-rare-earth-niobium deposits, Inner Mongolia, China”, in Lithos, volume 26, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:

In 1992, during his visit to Bayan Obo, China’s largest rare earth mine, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared, “There is oil in the Middle East; there is rare earth in China.”

2010, Cindy A. Hurst, China's Ace in the Hole: Rare Earth Elements, number 59, NDU Press, →OCLC, page 124:

Wearing the worn and dusty clothes of an unskilled laborer, he looked like most of the inhabitants of Bayan Obo, a company town in Inner Mongolia that was itself worn and dusty.

2012, Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler, Poseidon's Arrow (Dirk Pitt series) (Fiction), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 216:

On orders from Beijing, state-controlled enterprises have dismantled Baotou refineries and rebuilt them at an enormous mining complex at Bayan Obo in the Gobi Desert, which mines about half the world’s rare earths.

2013 October 22, Keith Bradsher, “China Tries to Clean Up Toxic Legacy of Its Rare Earth Riches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-16, International Business:

All rocks around us contain significant amounts of rare earth elements, but they become concentrated in these exotic magmas through slow crystallisation in Earth’s crust. This is usually not enough to make an ore deposit, which consists of millions of tonnes of rock made up of between 5 and 50% by weight of rare earth elements. A second step of concentration is required.
In giant deposits such as Bayan Obo in Inner Mongolia, hot fluids loaded with carbonate appear to have undergone this extra concentration step. But exactly how has been a mystery.

2022 March 18, Joël Brugger, Barbara Etschmann, Marion Louvel, “Powerful X-rays reveal the birth of giant rare earth element deposits – and may give clues for sustainable mining”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2022-03-18:

A mining district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.


Poonch

Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir#English

A town and district of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

A district and division of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.


Pukou

From the point of view of communication facilities, Pukou appeared to be a suitable site, but was found rather too accessible and therefore objectionable from the strategic viewpoint.[...]
Moreover, the site is only about 50 kilometers by water from Pukou, which renders the transport of coal supplies fairly easy. Coal brought from the north by the Tientsin-Pukou Railway could be quickly transhipped to the steelworks from Pukou, and supplies from Pinghsiang, carried from Wuchang (via Yushan-Pinghsiang and Hunan-Hupeh Railway) or Kiukiang (via Yushan-Pinghsiang and Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway) would be available by water.
The other possible site for the steelworks, Hsiehchiatien, lies in the district of Luho on the northern bank of the Yangtze, and is 20 kilometers from Pukou. The land between Pukou and Hsiehchiatien is very low, but the proposed site is surrounded by hills, and thus secure from the danger of being flooded.

1934 October, “State Plants for Industrial Development in China”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXX, number 10, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 441, column 2:

The “bank”, in Nanjing’s Pukou district in Jiangsu province, promised customers 2 per cent interest a week for their deposits. Almost 200 people were conned.

2015 January 23, Alan Yu, “Looks just like the real thing: bogus bank in China scams people of over 200 million yuan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-25, China:


Khasansky

Borrowed from Russian хаса́нский (xasánskij, “relating to Khasan”). From Russian Хаса́н (Xasán, “Khasan”, toponym) + Russian -ский (-skij, relational-adjectival suffix).


Balaghat

Balaghaut (alternative)
Ballagate (alternative)
Balagate (alternative)
Balagatte (alternative)
Baligaot (alternative)


Solukhumbu

Borrowed from Nepali सोलुखुम्बु (solukhumbu).


Tumpat

A district in Kelantan, Malaysia, on the border with Thailand.


Pasir Mas

A town and district in Kelantan, Malaysia.


Xian'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸安 (Xián'ān).

The Financial Daily reported that the obsession began at a spring festival this year in Damu township, in the mountainous Xianan district, when a resident returned home for a holiday with her husband from Guangdong province, where the Hong Kong Mark Six draw can be seen on TV.

[2001 August 16, Mark O'Neill, “Hubei punts on Mark Six imitation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-18:

There are over 5,000 registered believers and 38 Christian gathering sites in Xian'an District. Amongst the sites are 7 downtown churches: Xian'an Central Church, Wenquan Grace Church, Dafan Chruch, Shuangquan Church, Hongqiao Church, Guanbu Church, and Shuangquan True Jesus Church.There are also churches and meeting places in the villages and towns of Xian'an District.

2017 April 19, Church of Xian'ning^([sic – meaning Xianning]), “Development and Characteristics of Christianity in Xian’an, Hubei”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

In Tunliu County in Shanxi Province, authorities set out to collect blood samples from 36,000 men and boys, or roughly 26% of the county’s male population, while 40,000 samples were collected from the roughly 300,000 male residents in the Xian’an District of Xianning, Hubei Province.

2020 June 17, James Leibold, Emile Dirks, “Genomic surveillance: inside China’s DNA dragnet”, in Australian Strategic Policy Institute, archived from the original on 2020-06-24:


Dong'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東安／东安 (Dōng'ān).

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東安／东安 (Dōng'ān)

Dunyi Street in the Dong'an district of Mudanjiang, which is known for its special Russian-Chinese atmosphere, has been listed as a state-level tourism and leisure district, as reported by Dongbeiwan, a partner of TV BRICS.

2023 March 11, “Dongyi Street is listed as a state-level tourism and recreation district in the PRC”, in TV BRICS, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

A district of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.


Tianjia'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 田家庵 (Tiánjiā'ān).

It is located in the western suburb of Tianjiaan, Huainnan^([sic – meaning Huainan]) City, Anhui Province. Like a multi-colored band, it joins together the railroad and highway which cut across the north and south Huai regions.

[1983 January 14 [1982 October 1], “First Dual-Purpose Bridge Over Huaihe Completed”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 300, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing GONGREN RIBAO p 1, →OCLC, Transportation, page 114:

Based on the initial data, we tried to forecast the 2005 EC development in various districts of Huai'nan^([sic – meaning Huainan]). Listed below is only the result of the forecast of EC development in Tianjia'an District.

2006, G. Jianquan, Fankun, T. Bingyong, B. Shi, Y. Jianzheng, “Forecast of the regional EC development through an ANN model with a feedback controller”, in Computational Finance and Its Applications II, WIT Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 233:


Pogranichny

/pəʊɡɹəˈnɪt͡ʃni/

Beginning where the road crosses the Sino-Soviet frontier at Man-chou-li, it passes through Hailar and Ha-erh-pin (Harbin) and ends when it crosses back into Soviet territory at Sui-fen-ho (Pogranichnaia). During its history it has been known as the Trans-Manchurian Railway, the North Manchurian Railway, the Chinese Changchun Railway and the Harbin Railway. The main line from Man-chou-li to Sui-fen-ho is 950 miles in length.

[1978, “CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY”, in Joseph L. Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 7, Academic International Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:


Fuxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 復興 (Fùxīng).

Fuhsing (alternative)
Fusing (alternative)

Firefighters from both Yilan County and Taoyuan City gathered at Phay, which is in the Fuxing District of Taoyuan City.

2022 October 20, G. Chen, “Rescuers Deliver Daily Supplies to 302 Stranded People 救援人員徒步跋涉 昨挺進明池山莊送藥”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2024-05-30:

Four men were found without vital signs after the vehicle they were traveling in plunged into a 50-meter-deep mountain valley in Taoyuan's Fuxing District just after noon on Thursday.
The Taoyuan City Fire Department said that two others, a man and a woman, were pulled from the vehicle alive after rescuers were called to the scene of the accident near Sbunaw Bridge in Fuxing District at 12:27 p.m.

2023 August 3, Yeh Chen, Bernadette Hsiao, “4 found without vital signs after vehicle plunges into rural Taoyuan valley”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2023-08-03, Society:

A mountain indigenous district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.


Ugu

Ugu District Municipality, a district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa; from Zulu ugu (“coast”).


Meixian

Borrowed from Mandarin 梅縣 /梅县 (Méi Xiàn) via Hanyu Pinyin.

bor+

Meishien (alternative)
Mei-hsien (alternative)

Among them, the Minnan and Hakka peoples are collectively called benshengren, as they mostly moved to Taiwan before 1945. Specifically, most Minnan people, nearly 70 percent of Taiwan’s total population, can trace their ancestry to today’s Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in East China’s Fujian province; today’s Longyan city in Fujian province and Meixian district in South China’s Guangdong province are the ancestral homes for the majority of the Hakka people — making up about 15 percent of the total.

2020 July 28, Taiwan Affairs Office, “Basic facts about Taiwan”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 2020-07-31:

A district of Meizhou, Guangdong, China.


Cuxhaven

A town, port, and rural district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.


Rastatt

A rural district in western Baden-Württemberg, which surrounds Baden-Baden.


Xizhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 汐止 (Xìzhǐ).

Hsichih (alternative)
Sijhih (alternative)
Shihchih (alternative)

Few people know about Du Yuesheng’s monument, situated in the picturesque village of Xizhi, not far from Taipei. The huge arch of grey stone is quite imposing. Its four-character inscription praises the dead man’s “loyalty” and “personal integrity,” and even proudly lists the names of his children!

1990, Jules Nadeau, “The United Bamboo triad: disgrace of a nation”, in Twenty Million Chinese "Made in Taiwan", Montréal Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 272:

Sources said the company has only met with lenders on a NT$12bn five-year financing from August 2011 for a commercial building project in New Taipei City’s Xizhi District.

2014 June 6, Carol Zhong, “TRLPC -Taiwan: Farglory meets with lenders as chairman faces bribery charges”, in Jacqueline Poh, Prakash Chakravarti, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-03, FINANCIALS:

In the video, the facility in Xizhi District in North Taiwan’s New Taipei City can be seen hoisting around a dozen newborn babies, each in their own cot, when the room starts to shake.

2019 April 19, John Feng, “Brave nurses launch daring rescue op to protect newborn babies during earthquake”, in Daily Mirror, archived from the original on 2019-04-19:

Those incidents included a landslide at the entrance of the An-Tai Tunnel in Taipei's Neihu District, a landslide in New Taipei's Xi-Zhi District that resulted in the evacuation of 100 people from housing in the area.

[2022 October 17, “CEOC Reports 268 Incidents as Rain Batter Island”, in International Community Radio Taipei, archived from the original on 2023-03-03, Realtime News:

Instead of buying a ticket to Hualien, Lu appeared to purchase a ticket to New Taipei City's Xizhi District.
At 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, police were able to pinpoint Lu's location to an internet cafe in Xizhi, reported UDN.

2023 February 14, Keoni Everington, “Prison escapee caught in New Taipei internet cafe”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2023-02-15, Society:


Longtan

A forest fire brigade member transfers vegetables in Longtan District, Jilin of northeast China's Jilin Province, March 30, 2022.

2022 April 2, “Xinhua Photo Daily April 2, 2022”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-04-02:

The building in Longtan, north of the island, has at least 50 engineers and other workers creating new screens for devices including iPhones and iPads, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the details were not public. Apple hired workers from local display maker AU Optronics as well as Qualcomm, which used to own the building, they said.

2015 December 15, “Apple opens ‘secret’ lab in northern Taiwan to develop new displays”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-16, China:

Wei Hsin-hsi and his wife pose for a picture outside their family’s temple that is located inside the proposed expansion area of an industrial park in the Longtan district of Taoyuan, in Taoyuan, Taiwan September 22, 2023.[…]
Two weeks later, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (2330.TW) (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, dropped plans to build a factory as part of the science park expansion in the bucolic Longtan district nearby - a development that heartened protesters and laid bare one of Taiwan's increasingly fraught "five shortages".[…]
The science park administration, which had noted that Hsinchu and Longtan are running out of space to create advanced chips, said it would proceed with the expansion for other companies.

2023 November 8, Sarah Wu, “Taiwan's land squeeze pits advanced chips against ancestral temples”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-08, Climate & Energy / Climate Change:


Darbhanga

Transliteration of Hindi दरभंगा (darbhaṅgā).


Spittal an der Drau

A town and district in Carinthia, Austria.


Emmendingen

A town and rural district in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


Zonguldak

A district of Zonguldak Province, Turkey.


Yuanzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 原州 (Yuánzhōu).

Yuanzhou District of Ningxia Province
At the onset, it should be clarified that upon the start of the Tsinghua Education-to-Aid-the-Poor Project, Yuanzhou district was far more advanced than Huade County in the area of distance education. Since 2000, Yuanzhou district has been involved in two national projects—"Applying Information Technology in Education" and "Modern Distance Education in Rural Areas"—both of which are funded by the Chinese government in partnership with certain international organizations.

2008 April, Richard C. Larson, M. Elizabeth Murray, “Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development: A Focus on China and Mexico”, in Journal of Science Education and Technology, volume 17, number 2, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 182, column 2:

Ma, 52, has served as secretary of the Yinchuan Youth League Committee, head of the general office of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region Youth League and deputy party secretary of Guyuan county.
He was promoted to deputy party secretary of Yuanzhou district of Guyuan city in 2002 and in 2006 became deputy head of the forestry administration.

2012 December 17, Pinghui Zhuang, “Ningxia Hui official faces corruption inquiry”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-12-30:

A district of Guyuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.


Schleswig-Flensburg

A rural district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Seat: Schleswig.


Kayes

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo#English

A town and district in Bouenza department, Republic of the Congo.


Kerzaz

A district in Béchar province, western Algeria.


Hunjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 渾江／浑江 (Húnjiāng).


Shapotou

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沙坡頭／沙坡头 (Shāpōtóu)

Next morning we drive to Shapotou on the edge of the Tengger Desert. Behind us churns the Yellow River, looking viscous with its load of ocher silt.

1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:

At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.

1982, The Desert Realm, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

Shapotou District is located on the southeast periphery of the Tengger Desert, bordering the Yellow River, with annual precipitation averaging 180 mm.

1995, Land Degradation and Desertification in Asia and the Pacific Region, →OCLC, page 279:

Zhang Zhishan, deputy chief of the Shapotou desert research and testing station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, checks the cyanobacteria breeding pool in a greenhouse in the Shapotou District of Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, May 30, 2018. Shapotou, whose name was derived from high sand dunes, is located on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert. For half a century, Shapotou is renowned for curbing desertification by mainly making straw checkerboard sand barriers in large scale.

2018 June 22, “Shapotou Curbs Desertification by Making Straw Checkerboard Sand Barriers”, in Chen Na, editor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on 2022-07-21:

A district of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.


Hongsibu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 紅寺堡／红寺堡 (Hóngsìbǔ).

紅寺堡／红寺堡 (Hóngsìbǔ)

One reason for Beijing's newfound urgency in chipping away at that staggering level of emissions can be found in the dusty, unprepossessing town of Hongsibu.[…]
The resettlement project is the most ambitious of its kind in China and perhaps the world. Officials see it as a triumph of government benevolence and engineering. “Its^([sic]) a miracle in poverty reduction, to take a piece of wasteland and transform it,” said Zheng Yaliang, Communist party secretary for Hongsibu. “Very few countries could do this.”

2015 November 15, Emma Graham-Harrison, “The coal boom choking China”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2015-06-05:

Neat rows of new houses, leafy streets, and beaming faces—this picturesque bucolic scene that greeted us when we visited Hongde Village the in Hongsibu District, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China on June 15, 2020.

2020, Qiushi, volume 12, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/QIUSHI/jbkoEAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT682:

Tan (2017) undertook a survey in Hongsibu, central Ningxia, which is the largest single environmental resettlement area in China, receiving up to 170,000 people between 2001 and 2010. The author finds that climate impacts are repeated in the relocation area, inducing households to pursue a new relocation; besides, households with low socioeconomic status and those with more local kinship ties were less likely to plan for relocation.

2021, Oscar A. Gómez, “Population Movements and Human Society”, in Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 207:

A district of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.


Litong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 利通 (Lìtōng).

My own research in China indicates that ex ante logic or modeling is never sufficient in categorizing the diversity emerging in ethnic areas. Each study tour may encounter a new, creative way of adaptation that is beyond the comprehension of strangers.[…]The most creative seem to be the Muslims in Litong, Ningxia, where people return to the Muslim spiritual world only after a certain age and allow the state and the mosque to govern different stages of their life (see Chapter 9).

2002, Chih-yu Shih, “Drawing Out She Characteristics in Lishui, Zhejiang”, in Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=XEQhQSU42skC&pg=PT139:

We select the Wuzhong city Litong district Yuming community as a standard rectangular traffic network example.

2017, Wei Shi et al., “Pros and Cons of a Non-enclosed Community in Congested Traffic Networks: Braess Paradox-Based Analysis”, in Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems: 17th Asia Simulation Conference, volume I, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:

Located in the north of Ningxia, Yinchuan borders the Shizuishan city in the north and the Litong District of Wuzhong City in the south.

2019, Rui Jian, “Sacred and Secular: Cultural Connotations of the Eid Rite of Hui Nationality in Yinchuan, Ningxia”, in 2019 International Conference on Humanities, Cultures, Arts and Design (ICHCAD 2019), →DOI, archived from the original on 2021-08-13, page 310:


Yongning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邕寧 /邕宁 (Yōngníng).

The discovery had been made in 1960 in the Kwangsi Province of South West China; the plants were growing under forest in a valley in the Yungning County, at an altitude of 75-120 metres. The position is approximately Latitude 20 Degrees North and Longitude 108 Degrees East. This places it close to the Vietnam Border, within the Tropics, and without enough altitude to effect much climate modification.

[1984, Tom Durrant, “The Yellow Camellias”, in Milton H. Brown, editor, The American Camellia Yearbook 1984, Fort Valley, Georgia: American Camellia Society, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130:

Besides the singing contest described above, there are some other unique activities associated with the songfest. One of these is called “returning the ball” songfest, which is popular in Guangxi’s Yongning County.

1993, “Central South and Southeast Regions”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, In Search of China's Minorities [中国少数民族风情录], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 285:

Following the success of the Dalu village pilot project the Yongning county party committee and government in Guangxi province decided to introduce eco-toilets in a comprehensive village environmental improvement programme.

2004, “Eco-san Examples”, in Ecological Sanitation, 2nd edition, Stockholm Environment Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China, formerly a county.


Xingqing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興慶 /兴庆 (Xīngqìng).

Yinchuan is divided into three parts from east to west: Xixia, Jinfeng and Xingqing. All the main sights and the main bus station are located in Xingqing. The train station lies inconveniently in the west end of Jinfeng, some 12km away from Xingqing; given this location it may be wise to buy tickets at the downtown booking office (daily 9am—6pm) on Xinhua Xi Jie.

2011, David Leffman, “The Yellow River”, in Rough Guide to China (Rough Guides), 6th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:

As we will see in the following analysis, the migration settlements in Jinfeng District and Xingqing District adopt different modes of industrial support.

2016, Lili Xun, “Inter-county Migration in Ningxia: A Case Study of Heshun New Village and Binhe Home”, in Ecological Migration, Development and Transformation: A Study of Migration and Poverty Reduction in Ningxia, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152:

Aerial photo shows residents lining up for nucleic acid tests at a testing site in Xingqing District of Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Oct. 23, 2021.

2022 February 16, Fred Guterl, “The Rift Between the U.S. and China Is a Global Health Hazard”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 2022-02-16:

A district of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.


Jinfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金鳳／金凤 (Jīnfèng).

金鳳／金凤 (Jīnfèng)

People line up for nucleic acid testing at a residential compound during the third round of mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jinfeng district of Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China November 1, 2021.

2021 November 2, Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu, Liangping Gao, “China Won't Give up on Its Zero-Tolerance COVID Policy Soon - Experts”, in Kim Coghill, Ana Nicolaci da Costa, editors, U.S. News & World Report, archived from the original on 2022-04-28:


Dawukou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大武口 (Dàwǔkǒu).

Six years ago, Shizuishan proposed to build a garden city in the desert and initiated another great "water campaign." It planned to create within five years a wetland of about 43 square kilometers with a perennial lake area of 20 square kilometers in the Dawukou District (大武口区) where the municipal government is located.

2011, Yu Chen, “Environmental Crisis in Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, and Shaanxi”, in The China Environment Yearbook, volume 5, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 159:

There are numerous cases of resolving group visits. For example, based on the service advantage of "grid management", Chaoyang Subdistrict in Dawukou District, Shizuishan City, Ningxia Province, successfully resolved a group petition incident caused by the reconstruction of the gate of Ningmei Taixi Kindergarten in its jurisdiction (Wang & Lan, 2011).

2021, Wang Bin, Communication and Community in the New Media Age, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=m-0rEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT155:

Dawukou District in the city of Shizuishan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is known for the saline and alkaline land located at the foot of Helan Mountain that is very hostile to agriculture.
The district, part of an old coal-mining region that closed five years ago, has taken up the challenge of transforming the local economy, embracing green agriculture despite the poor soil and lack of water.

2022 June 30, “Across China: Farmers breathe life into soil in old coal-mining area”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2022-07-22:

A district of Shizuishan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Dawukou
National Imagery and Mapping Agency


Huinong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 惠農 /惠农.

To assess the feasibility of conjunctive water-use and use of shallow groundwater, a site was selected in the Huinong District of Shizuishan, Ningxia, where field experiments were conducted by using (1) Yellow River water[…]

2006, Agricultural Water Management in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

Intense industrial activities could result in massive accumulations of trace elements in the soil and risk the terrestrial ecosystems and human health. A total of 119 topsoil samples from a typical industrial area, Huinong District, Ningxia, Northwest China, were collected, and the contents of six trace elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn) were determined.[…]It is suggested that effective remediation measures for Cd and As, in particular, should be properly employed for the sustainable development of the soil and groundwater, while reducing the risk of elements to the local residents in Huinong District.

2020, “Trace Elements in Soils of a Typical Industrial District in Ningxia, Northwest China: Pollution, Source, and Risk Evaluation”, in Sustainability, volume 12, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-22:

The various local authorities in Ningxia have also made innovations in terms of the specific resettlement of "ecomigrants".[…]Huinong District has provided housing, one mu of land, one job position to resettled households, which would also be[…]

2020 [2017], “Poverty Alleviation Through Population Resettlement and Rural Livelihoods”, in Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 294–295:

Panshi church is a house church in Huinong District, Shizuishan. The church was raided during its Sunday service on December 5, 2021.

2022 February 22, Yu Bing, “Panshi church raided and preacher arrested”, in ChinaAid, archived from the original on 2022-03-10:


Harburg

A rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany. Seat: Winsen.


Pinneberg

A town and rural district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, just outside Hamburg.


Donggang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東港 /东港 (Dōnggǎng).


Yuanbao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 元寶／元宝 (Yuánbǎo).

元寶／元宝 (Yuánbǎo)

But during the readjustment period, the light industry, textile industry and handicraft industry that are producing consumer goods must at least make a fairly big development so that they will be able to provide more employment. Such measures are imperative. The Yuanbao District of Dandong Municipality has set a good example in this respect.

1982 January 25 [1981 December 20], Zhuang Qidong [8264 0796 2639], Liu Xun [0491 1789] [劉循], Zhu Yuanzhen [2612 0337 3791] [朱元珍], Sun Keliang [1327 0344 0087], “An Investigation of Urban Employment in Liaoning Province”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 199, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing JINGJI YANJIU [ECONOMIC RESEARCH] No 12 pp 25-31 [經濟研究], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 57:


Zhenxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 振興 /振兴 (Zhènxīng).

All localities in the province have calculated, through registration, the number of retired soldiers, and made preliminary distributional arrangements, according to the authroized^([sic – meaning authorized]) size of units, for the retired specialized technical soldiers of the 13 arms not to be included in the reserve forces. Zhenxing District of Dandong City has also calculated, through registration, the number of local specialized medical, signal and transportation technical personnel so as to provide reliable data of mobilization potential in time of war.

1984 November 21 [1984 October 5], “Liaoning Reports Construction of Reserve Forces”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 078, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shenyang Liaoning Ribao p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Military and Public Security Affairs, page 66:

Sales of residential properties rose almost 30 percent in Dandong’s of^([sic]) Zhenxing District, which includes the New Zone, last month from March, according to data from the local housing authority.

2018 May 2, Yawen Chen, Sue-Lin Wong, Beijing newsroom, “Ultimate frontier market? Amid thaw, Chinese eye North Korea real estate”, in Tony Munroe, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-13, BUSINESS NEWS:

The study area is located on the road from the First Company of Dandong Public Transportation Corporation to Dandong Environmental Science Research Institute, Jinshan Street, Zhenxing District, Dandong (see Fig. 2).

2022, Shaopeng Zhong, Daniel (Jian) Sun, “Travel Time Estimation Based on Built Environment Attributes and Low-Frequency Floating Car Data”, in Logic-Driven Traffic Big Data Analytics: Methodology and Applications for Planning, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:

A district of Dandong, Liaoning, China, across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Pyongan, North Korea.


Tong'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同安 (Tóng'ān).

Other cases include a dispute over sandy terrain in Yangzizhou, Puqi county, Hubei, on July 18, 1925 (ten killed, twelve wounded; Puqi WSZL, vol. 2, 1986, pp. 110-13) and one for three full years, from 1945 to 1948, in Tong’an, Fujian (Tong’an WSZL, vol. 9, 1989, p. 133).

2001, Lucien Bianco, “Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:

ABC Xiamen Tong'an Rural Bank Limited Liability Company was established in June 2012 in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with a registered capital of RMB100 million, 51% of which was held by the Bank.

2019, “Discussion and Analysis”, in 2019 Annual Report, Agricultural Bank of China, page 56:

The video has been viewed more than 1,000 times after it was shared here on Twitter on October 20, 2021.
Its simplified Chinese-language caption translates as: "On October 16, in Tong'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, city management officers were injured by sulfuric acid and 19 people were burned."

2021 October 26, “This news report of a demolition incident in China's Xiamen city is from 2013”, in Agence France-Presse, sourced from AFP Hong Kong, archived from the original on 2024-10-05:

A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a county.


Peace River

A reference to the truce by the Cree and the Dane-zaa (Beaver) peoples that made the river (then named Unchagah) the boundary between the conflicting First Nations.
The town is originally named Peace River Crossing, after the river.

Peace River Regional District, a regional district in north-east British Columbia.


Lianshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 連山 /连山 (Liánshān).

Between April and July 2003, 11.5 million yuan in pension funds for peasants in the Lianshan area of Huludao city , Liaoning province , was siphoned off to invest in stocks of an unspecified travel company in Guilin[…]

2006 December 4, Ting Shi, “New pension fund scandal revealed”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-26:


Longgang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍崗 /龙岗 (Lónggǎng).

A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.


Longgang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍港 /龙港 (Lónggǎng, “Dragon Port”).
* Of the city in Zhejiang: a blend of its former name Longjiang Port Area (龍江港區 /龙江港区 (Lóngjiāng gǎngqū)) adopted upon its elevation to town status in 1983. The name Longjiang itself derived from the "Qinglong River" (青龍江 /青龙江 (qīnglóng jiāng)), used locally for the lower Ao (鰲江 /鳌江 (áo jiāng)).

bor

The blast, believed to have been caused when a liquified gas tank ignited, occurred at 5am and caused the partial collapse of the building in Longgang district in Huludao City, in Liaoning province.

2015 January 12, Angela Meng, “At least 10 Chinese residents injured after suspected gas explosion at block of flats”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-14, China:

Lei said the smell of exhaust gas from chemical plants in Huludao’s Longgang district is noticeable almost every day. “Sometimes there isn’t a noticeable odor but it just chokes you and makes you want to cough,” he said.

2022 July 26, Christian Shepherd, Vic Chiang, “A Chinese artist fights pollution with rock music”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-26, Asia:


Nanpiao

The Huludao and Nanpiao areas and Suizhong County, which were formally under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou City, and Jianchang County of Chaoyang City were placed under the leadership of Jinxi City.

1989 [1989 August 1], “Council Approves Divisional Changes in Liaoning”, in Daily Report: China, number 150, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86, column 1:


Longcheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍城 /龙城 (Lóngchéng).

Leading comrades from Dalian, the Dongling District of Shengyang, Qidaoquanzi Township in Chaoyang’s Longcheng District, Anshan, and the Ganjingzi District of Dalian made statements on their own position successively in the meeting.

1994 October 14 [1994 September 17], “Liaoning Official on Township Enterprises”, in Daily Report: China, number 94-199, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shenyang LIAONING RIBAO pp 1, 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 69, column 2:

Ms. Jiang Weizhen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, was tried by Longcheng District Court on November 30, 2017, for passing out informational materials that exposed the persecution of her faith by the Chinese communist regime.

2017 December 16, “Liaoning Woman Tried for Passing Out Information Exposing the Persecution of Her Spiritual Belief”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org, archived from the original on 2018-01-09:

A district of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.


Shuangta

When Zhang led a team of agronomists to Shuangta district, Chaoyang city, to deliver lectures on fruit tree cultivation techniques in late 1987, they found the audience consisted of only four old mean who just wanted to kill time rather than learn anything.[…]
The annual income of local peasants jumped from 720 yuan per capita in 1987 to 1,033 yuan in 1989 in the Shuangta district.

1990 November 14 [1990 November 14], “Peasants Seek to Learn New Farming Techniques”, in Daily Report: China, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 31–32:


Xinbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新北 (Xīnběi).

A district of Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.


Madou

The farmers’ association for Madou District of Tainan, a well-known place for pomelo production, said it has joined a league of Taiwanese pomelo growers to divert sales of the fruit in anticipation of Chinese restrictions.

2022 August 3, Tzu-ti Huang, “Pomelo farmers in Taiwan stunned by China ban”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-08-03:


Xinwu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新屋 (Xīnwū).

Hsinwu (alternative)
Sinwu (alternative)

Soap maker Mary & Majestic Inc (美琪生技) yesterday said that it will spend NT$700 million (US$23.12 million) to build a new factory in Xinwu Township (新屋鄉), Taoyuan County, in April, aiming to increase its annual revenue to between NT$1 billion and NT$1.5 billion from the current NT$500 million in the next five years.

2014 February 19, Camaron Kao, “Mary & Majestic to build new factory in Taoyuan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-11-21, Business, page 13:

The accident reportedly took place late Saturday, as the men returned to shore after wading out into the waters near Yongan Fishing Port in Taoyuan's Xinwu District to perform a ritual to send away the evils and diseases while praying for peace and good fortune.

2022 August 14, Jui-chi Wu, Chao Yen-hsiang, “Taoyuan Ghost Festival accident leaves 3 dead, 1 in coma”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-08-14, Society:


Talas

A municipality, city, and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey.


Xiahuayuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 下花園 /下花园 (Xiàhuāyuán).

Although unconfirmed elsewhere a dispatch published in the Eastern Times (Shanghai) on July 24 stated that a clash already had occurred between Feng’s troops and the Government forces in the vicinity of Hsiahuayuan on the railway south, of Kalgan.

[1933 July 29, “Will Feng-Japanese Crisis in Chahar Precipitate New Civil Warfare?”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 65, number 9, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 354, column 1:

The eastern counties of the Datong- and Huairen-type (Xiahuayuan District, Zhangjiakou District and Yanqing County) have no access to the water transfer, but have relatively water-rich basins without significant competing surface water users.

2017, Jacob Möhring, Ilona M. Otto, Xiaoxi Wang, “Impacts and adaptation”, in Frank Wechsung, Stefan Kaden, Markus Venohr, Jürgen Hofmann, Jens Meisel, Zhenci Xu, editors, Sustainable Water and Agricultural Land Use in the Guanting Basin under Limited Water Resources, Schweizerbart Science Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 331:

Currently, the team led by professor Xu Weiguo has moved on to Wujiazhuang Village in Xiahuayuan District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

2021 March 20, Shuangyu Han, “3D Printing Concrete House / Professor XU Weiguo‘s team from the Tsinghua University School of Architecture”, in ArchDaily, archived from the original on 2023-06-29, China:

The selected study area, the Xiahuayuan District (Figure 1) in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, is located at 115°16′ E and 40°29′ N. This region has a temperate continental monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons, and hosts abundant mineral resources, including reserves of coal, shale, granite and other resources used throughout the territory. The region also hosts ample symbiotic mineral resources, including hematite and multi-metals. By March 2009, the Xiahuayuan District, owing to its long-time singular industrial structure, inadequate economic aggregates and serious resource shortages, was classified by the State Council of China as a second batch resource-exhausted city.

2022, Qiang Fan et al., “Evolution Analysis of the Coupling Coordination of Microclimate and Landscape Ecological Risk Degree in the Xiahuayuan District in Recent 20 Years”, in Sustainability, volume 14, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 2:

A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China.


Beidaihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北戴河 (Běidàihé).

The stabbings took place Thursday morning in Beidaihe, a resort area in the Hebei Province city of Qinhuangdao, about 180 miles east of Beijing.

2014 November 20, Austin Ramzy, “Man Stabs 7 Hospital Workers to Death in China, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-11-20, Asia Pacific:

Tesla (TSLA.O) cars will from July 1 be barred from driving into the Chinese coastal district of Beidaihe for at least two months, a local traffic police official told Reuters on Monday.

2022 June 20, Zhang Yan, Brenda Goh, Kevin Huang, “China's Beidaihe district to bar Tesla cars from driving in from July - local police”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Autos & Transportation:

A district of Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.


Pforzheim

A city and urban district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


Dongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東山 /东山 (Dōngshān).


Viersen

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

A town and district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


Nankang

Translingual: Nankangia

This was a great spiritual blessing to him and he returned a different man. He is now out with five others at this work making his centre at Nankang.

1921 February, C. A. Bunting, “From House to House in South Kiangsi”, in China's Millions, volume XXIX, number 1, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 26, column 1:

The Communists now divided into two groups which crossed the Hsinfeng River by the Wangmu and Kupo ferries respectively. One group struck north-west, crossed the Chang River between Nankang and Tayu and cut across the Kanchou-Nanhsiung road to occupy Chengkuo, north of Jenhua in Kwangtung province, on November 5.

1971, Dick Wilson, “Breaking Out of the Circle”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76:

Going south by highway from Kanchow, the seat of the Kanchow prefecture, we first passed through Nankang county.

1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 276:

Hundreds of Chinese furniture makers overturned police cars and blocked roads in the southeastern city of Nankang on Monday, to protest a government plan to raise taxes on an industry already suffering from a decline in demand from export markets.

2009 June 15, Yu Le, “Furniture makers protest higher taxes in east China”, in Jeremy Laurence, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-18, Latest Crisis:

Nankang district is in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The industrial economy of Nankang has continued to grow.

2018 August 14, “People’s Government of Ganzhou Nankang Builds Up Furniture Industry in China with SAP Ariba”, in AP News; Business Wire, archived from the original on 2022-10-11:

A district of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, formerly a county.


Bhojpur

Transliteration of Nepali भोजपुर (bhojapura)

transliteration

Bhojpur District, A district of Province No. 1, Nepal.


Jianyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 建陽 /建阳 (Jiànyáng).

It said 90 buildings collapsed in the storm that hit Jianyang county of Fujian Province. The agency quoted county authorities as saying the casualties included students and teachers in local schools.

1983 April 14, “AROUND THE WORLD; Tornado Kills 54 In South China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-27, Around the World, page 11:

A district and former county of Nanping, Fujian, China.


Kienyang

Borrowed from Mandarin 建陽／建阳 (Jiànyáng).

Miss I. B. Ramsay writes from Kienyang that "all the churches in the county have suffered greatly from the depredations of the bandits and Communists. A few Christians have been killed, others carried away captive and held to ransom."

1931, E. F. E. Wigram, “The Fukien Diocese and Mission”, in Weapons that Win: Being the C. M. S. Story of the Year, 1930-31, London: Church Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 106:

Dated form of Jianyang: a district and former county of Nanping, Fujian, China.


Zihguan

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 梓官 (Zǐguān) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Zǐhguan.

Tzukuan (alternative)
Ziguan (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

The experimental design includes first the determination of the relationships of fish size and the price per weight (PPW) of the economic demersal fishes sold as the one-hundred Dollars-a-plate manner in Tunkang and Zihguan fish markets in the southwestern coast of Taiwan.

2008, Meng-Hsun Huang et al., “Mesh regulations of bottom trawl for the protection of economic immature fishes off southwestern Taiwan [2008]”, in Food and Agriculture Organization, archived from the original on 2023-03-06:

An AT-3 trainer aircraft used by Taiwan's Air Force Academy crashed during a routine training mission in Zihguan District in Kaohsiung Tuesday morning.

2014 October 21, “AT-3 trainer crashes in Kaohsiung, pilots survive”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-09-29, Politics:

The incident had a serious and significant impact on farmland in the Ciaotou and Zihguan districts.

2016, Tzung-Yuh (葉琮裕) Yeh, “Intergrated Phytoremediation Mitigate Heavy Metal Pollution”, in 土壤及地下水污染整治 [Journal of Soil and Groundwater Remediation], volume 3, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

At the criterion level, Zihguan in Kaohsiung ranks the highest (0.966) for economic structure (C7), and Anping District in Tainan ranks the lowest (0.229).

2016, Wu Chin-Cheng et al., “Application of Social Vulnerability Indicators to Climate Change for the Southwest Coastal Areas of Taiwan”, in Sustainability, volume 8, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Asked yesterday morning during a visit to a farm in Kaohsiung’s Zihguan District (梓官) why he chose not to participate in the TV presentation, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Han said: “I am going to continue inspecting [agricultural losses].”

2020 May 31, “Han ditches presentation to inspect vegetable farms”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-08, Taiwan News, page 3:

This European style building in Kaohsiung's Zihguan District has a history of 120 years. The building was suspected of being damaged by the earthquake on the 23rd and rain in the past few days. Not only did its lintel collapse, but the building's outer walls also became a pile of rubble.
Liu Ying-kai, Chihhsi Borough Chief, Zihguan District, Kaohsiung: “We'll clear these bricks first. And then we'll talk to the owner to discuss what to do next.”

2022 March 24, P. Hsu, “全台155校因地震受損 金額達3500多萬 [155 Schools in Taiwan Damaged from Earthquake]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2023-03-05:

After visiting Kezailiao fishing port, head north on Provincial Highway 17, which divides the Zihguan District into Chikan, famous for its artistic products, and Zihping, known for its traditional architecture.

2022 May, “Experience Coastal Zihguan”, in Love Kaohsiung 愛‧高雄, number 19, 高雄畫刊 [Kaohsiung Pictorial], archived from the original on 2022-12-07:

A woman harvests water spinach in Kaohsiung’s Zihguan District on July 26.

2023 September 15, “《TAIPEI TIMES》 Benefits to be hiked 7％ amid inflation”, in Liberty Times, archived from the original on 2023-09-18:

Kezailiao Harbor
Located in Zihguan District, this small fishing village was once a gold mine for oyster farming, but had since transformed into a popular tourist port and fish market. It is also a key production area for mullet roe.

2024 June 28, Charlie Chang, “The Ultimate Guide to Kaohsiung for Sea Lovers”, in Michelin Guide, archived from the original on 2024-08-11, Travel:


Wugu

Guanyinkeng River Bridge in Wugu District, New Taipei City collapsed on Friday afternoon (April 21), injuring three construction workers.

2023 April 21, Stephanie Chiang, “New Taipei bridge collapses, 3 construction workers injured”, in Taiwan News, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21, Society:


Bargarh

Transliteration of Odia ବରଗଡ଼ (baragaṛa).


Mangrove Cay

/ˈmæŋ.ɡɹəʊv ˈkiː/

The island in the Bahamas is named for the presence of mangrove trees on the island.
The island in the Turks and Caicos Islands is named for the presence of red mangrove (“Rhizophora mangle”) trees.


Grand Cay

/ˈɡɹænd ˈkiː/


Groß-Gerau

A town and rural district of Hesse, Germany.


Nienburg

A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany. Official name: Nienburg/Weser.


Neihu

From Mandarin 內湖 (Nèihú), Wade–Giles romanization: Nei⁴-hu².

The coal-bearing rocks consist of two ENE-WSW trending coal belts extending from the coast at the west of Keelung to the eastern edge of the Taipei basin near Sungshan and Neihu. The northern belt is formed of the Lower coal-bearing formation, beginning from Waimushan on the northern coast westwards through Neimushan, Tawulun, Luliao, to Neihu in a total extension of nearly 16 km.[…]Neihu 內湖

1953, Ch'un-sun (何春蓀) Ho, Mineral Resources of Taiwan, Ministry of Economic Affairs, →OCLC, pages 31, 307:

The area is 3,678 kilometers and the population exceeds 3,650,000. First projects will be a new city of 300,000 at Linkou and another new community at Neihu to relieve Taipei population pressure.[…]
Some 700,000 housing units will be built along with industrial parks, transportation facilities, public utilities, parks and playgrounds, drainage systems, etc. Development of Linkou and Neihu are high on the priority list.

1969, Free China Review, volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 9, 28:

Linkou in Taipei county and Neihu district of Taipei city will receive priority attention.

1969, Taiwan Trade Monthly of the Republic of China, Taipei: Epoch Publicity Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 2:

ᵇRural area includes Musha and Neihu, which were made part of Taipei on July 1, 1968.

1972 April—June, Ronald Freeman, Albert Hermalin, T. H. Sun, “Fertility Trends in Taiwan: 1961-1970”, in Population Index, volume 38, number 2, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Population Association of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 151:

The section between Keelung and Neihu (northeast of Taipei) of the North-South Freeway is scheduled to be completed by the end of May and will be opened to traffic in July, according to the Taiwan Area Freeway Construction Bureau.

1977 May 1, “North-South Freeway”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVIII, number 17, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

On one of our morning excursions we went to the Neihu district of Taipei to visit the National Fu Hsing Dramatic Arts Academy.

1989 April, Fred Ferretti, “Taipei”, in Gourmet, page 190, column 2:

The arrival of Taipei Sky Tower and Fubon Xinyi Headquarters is unlikely to hurt the office space market, Mr. Huang said. Fubon, for instance, is moving many of its operations from older buildings in nearby Neihu District.

2017 July 11, Chris Horton, “Lonely Giant of the Taipei Skyline Is About to Get Some Company”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-07-11, Commercial Real Estate:

AIT’s roughly 500 staff members will move to the new office complex in Taipei’s Neihu district in the fall.

2018 June 12, Ralph Jennings, Gerry Shih, Christopher Bodeen, “US lauds Taiwan ties in dedication of new de-facto embassy”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-10-11:


Shilin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 士林 (Shìlín).

The Shida District appeals to the young and chic, and the Shilin District market is impressive for its sheer size.

2013 April 11, Yeou-Jey Hsu, “36 Hours in Taipei, Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-16, Travel:

At Taoyuan International Airport, he flagged a taxi and was soon on his way home, north of Taipei. Last year his wife had convinced him to buy a town house out in Shilin District at the edge of Yangmingshan National Park.[…]
Traditionally, the suburban area of Shilin District had been populated by politicians and diplomats, since they were the ones who had money.

2016 December, Wendy Lee, The Art of Confidence: A Novel (Fiction), Kensington Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 67–68:

If you want to watch sakura, but wish to get away from crowds during the Lunar New Year holiday, Zhongshe Rd. (中社路) in the mountains of Taipei’s Shilin District is the place for you.

2019 January 27, “Sakura bloom quietly in the mountains of Taipei's Shilin”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2025-01-15, Travel:


Jaunpur

Borrowed from Hindustani جونپور / जौनपुर (jaunpur).

A district of Varanasi division, Uttar Pradesh, India.

A city in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

A Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India.

A Legislative Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India.


Tirunelveli

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திருநெல்வேலி

A city and district of Tamil Nadu, India.


Beitou

Beitou is a nice place of Taipei and is the best of the best. It is the new hometown of hot springs known throughout the world. It is also a tourist attraction located in the suburb of Taipei with a land area of 56.82 square kilometers.[…]Yangmingshan Valley is green and lovely; Guandu wet land provides a wonderful spot for watching birds; Hot spring baths offer a comfortable and refreshing experience. They all indicate the unique natural resources and various traditional activities that Beitou District boasts, making it the best choice for tourists home and abroad.

2020 June 1, Beitou District Office, Taipei City, “About Beitou District”, in Taipei City Government, archived from the original on 2020-06-30, Administrative Districts:

The 3.1 magnitude quake shook buildings in Taipei. The epicenter of the earthquake was at the city's northern Beitou district with a depth of 4.8 km (2.9 miles), the weather bureau said.

2023 February 16, Yimou Lee, “Taipei hit by small earthquake, no immediate reports of damage -weather bureau”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-22, Commodities:


Xinyi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 信義 (Xìnyì).

The modern, glass-fronted buildings surrounding the massive skyscraper Taipei 101 in the Xinyi District suggest a shift toward cleaner, starker development, but a trip to older parts of the city reveals hidden corners untouched by modernity.

2011 April 8, Erin Meister, “Reveling in the real Taiwain^([sic – meaning Taiwan])”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-26, Travel:

Taiwan blue magpie, which is legally protected but raised by nobody in Taiwan, appears in Sinyi District, Taipei.

[2022, “Unicorn and Taiwan Blue Magpie”, in Law Office of Eric Chung, archived from the original on 2023-03-05:

Taipei 101, in the capital’s prime Xinyi District (信義), won the “King of the Land” title for the 10th straight year, with the value of office space in the skyscraper rising to NT$6.55 million (US$213,286) per ping (3.3m2), the Taipei City Government said.

2022 December 17, Crystal Hsu, “Taipei 101 remains ‘King of the Land’ for 10th year”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-19, Business, page 12:

Tao Zhu Yin Yuan is a^([sic – meaning an]) art-deco building located in the Taipei City Sinyi District at the corner of Sung Yung Road and Sung Kao Road.

[(Can we date this quote?), “Project Overview”, in Tao Zhu Yin Yuan, archived from the original on 2023-03-05:


Wanhua

From Mandarin 萬華 (Wànhuá), Wade–Giles romanization: Wan⁴-hua².

On the other hand, the local people are for the most part crowded in the western part of this city, that is, the districts of Ta-tao-ch'-en and Wanhua.

1956, Cheng-siang Chen, The City of Taipei, →OCLC, page 12:

The population of Taipei is concentrated in two areas, each having a population density of more than 260,000 persons per square mile. One, the northeast part of the city, roughly coincides with the old Tai-tao-chen area. The other, the southeast part, is approximately the old Meng-Chia, which is now called Wanhua.

1964, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Settlement and Transportation”, in Taiwan-ilha formosa; a geography in perspective, Butterworths, →LCCN, page 235:

It is not at all uncommon in Hsiachichou for married men to seek the services of prostitutes in the nearby market towns or the Wanhua section of Taipei.

1966 August, Arthur P. Wolf, “Childhood Association, Sexual Attraction, and the Incest Taboo: A Chinese Case”, in American Anthropologist, volume 68, number 4, American Anthropological Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 889:

The Taipei city government said 1,000 soldiers trained for chemical warfare would disinfect the city's Wanhua and Chungcheng districts on Monday.

2003 May 12, Thomas Crampton, “Viruses seem to attack cells in the same fashion, expert says : AIDS offers a clue in SARS fight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-08, WORLD:

The modern, glass-fronted buildings surrounding the massive skyscraper Taipei 101 in the Xinyi District suggest a shift toward cleaner, starker development, but a trip to older parts of the city reveals hidden corners untouched by modernity.
The oldest section, Wanhua, with its winding corridors and quiet decay, offers a glimpse of the city’s bygone days. At its bustling heart is the busy Longshan Temple. I bump past a flurry of tourists, worshipers and monks selling prayer beads outside the gates to reach the controlled chaos within, where hundreds of faithful light incense and present offerings at myriad shrines to Buddha and other deities.

Soon enough I was back in the Wanhua District. I think it’s the oldest part of Taipei, but it’s hard to tell with the constant tearing down and building up all over the city.

2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month, Soho Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

The first location, in the Wanhua District of old Taipei, was a tiny, standing-room-only affair that drew complaints from neighbors who took their story to Taiwan’s raucous local news media.

2017 November 19, Chris Horton, “Where Stinky Tofu Is at Its Malodorous Best”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-20, Asia Pacific:

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told a news conference that of the 29 new domestic infections many were connected with an outbreak in Taipei's Wanhua district, a mix of old temples, trendy shops and hostess bars.
Chen called on people who think they may have had contact with infected patients to go to rapid testing stations the government is setting up around Wanhua.

2021 May 14, Ben Blanchard, “Bars in Taiwan's capital to close as COVID-19 infections spread”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-15, World:

The teahouse culture in Taipei’s Wanhua district is responsible for the recent spike in Covid-19 infections, official figures suggest.

2021 May 21, Lawrence Chung, “Taipei’s Covid-19 spike traced back to hostess teahouses”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-21, China:


Ruifang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 瑞芳 (Ruìfāng).

Juifang (alternative)
Rueifang (alternative)

Along the Pingxi Branch Line that departs from Ruifang, an unremarkable market town to the southeast of Keelung City that grew up as a railway junction during the mining boom of the early 20th century, runs an old locomotive, its no-frills carriages connected by traditional round doors.

2017 November 9, Thomas Bird, “Taiwan’s northern tip: weird nature, wonderful street food”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-11, Travel:


Luzhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蘆竹 (Lúzhú).

Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) confirmed Saturday (Dec. 31) it had cracked down on a gang of ketamine dealers in the Luzhu District of Taoyuan, in the north of Taiwan.

2022 December 31, “Ketamine gang in north Taiwan raided”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2024-08-13, Society:

A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.


Algoma District

Coined by American ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793 - 1864) from an element "Al" referring to Algonquin and an Algonquian term meaning "lake", "body of water".


Cochrane District

The district is named after the town of Cochrane.


Kenora District

The district is named after the town of Kenora.


Manitoulin District

The district is named after Manitoulin Island.


Nipissing District

The district is named after Lake Nipissing.


Parry Sound District

The district is named after the town of Parry Sound.


Rainy River District

The district is named after the town of Rainy River.


Sudbury District

The district is named after the town of Sudbury.


Thunder Bay District

The district is named after the city of Thunder Bay.


Timiskaming District

Derived from the Algonquian toponym and ethnonym Timiskaming.


Pingzhen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平鎮 /平镇 (Píngzhèn).

Pingchen (alternative)
Pingjhen (alternative)

On April 30, this construction site for a parking lot for a park in Taoyuan City's Pingzhen District suddenly collapsed.

2020 May 1, C. Chuang, “Worker Killed in Taoyuan Construction Accident [桃園文化公園停車場工程坍塌 1死2傷]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2023-08-21:

桃園文化公園停車場工程坍塌 1死2傷

Authorities in Taoyuan are searching for a non-native baboon, possibly a chacma baboon, which has been spotted several times in the city's Pingzhen District over the past 12 days and was most recently seen in the coastal district of Xinwu.

2023 March 23, Yeh Chen, Kuo Hsuan-wen, Tseng Yi-ning, Matthew Mazzetta, “Sightings of non-native baboon reported in Taoyuan”, in Focus Taiwan, sourced from Taipei, CNA, archived from the original on 2023-03-23, Society:


Xindian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新店 (Xīndiàn).

Hsintien (alternative)
Sindian (alternative)

"All of them were only carrying out orders," Tsai I-hsueh, a detective from New Taipei City's Xindian district in charge of the investigation, told the . "We are still investigating the motive and the whereabouts of any mastermind."

2015 October 29, Samuel Chan, Clifford Lo, “Taiwan-Hong Kong police story: inside the secret joint operation to rescue the wealthy businessman kidnapped by the world's most notorious triad”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-29, Hong Kong/Law and Crime:

In July 2016, a fire in a retirement home in New Taipei’s Xindian District killed six people and injured 28.

2018 August 13, Chris Horton, “Hospital Blaze in Taiwan Kills 9 and Injures Dozens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-13, Asia Pacific:

An invitation Lam said he received from the American Institute in Taiwan, the United States de facto embassy, lists the National Human Rights Museum in Xindian, New Taipei City, as the location for a meeting. Pelosi is not specifically mentioned in the invitation.

2022 August 3, Sarah Wu, “Bookstore owner to ask Pelosi to help Hong Kongers at Taipei meeting”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Lincoln Feast, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-03, Asia Pacific:


Alian

Of the Four Great Ancestral Daochang, the Chaofeng Temple is the only one in the southern half of Taiwan; it sits on the slopes of Dagang Mountain in the Alian Rural District of Kaohsiung County.

1999, Charles Brewer Jones, “The Early Japanese Period”, in Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:

A community development association in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alian District (阿蓮) and environmental protection groups yesterday called for the protection of farmland owned by Taiwan Sugar Corp (Taisugar) and demanded that it not be developed into a metal-processing facility.

2012 July 22, I-chia Lee, “Eco-groups demand farm is protected from industry”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-01, Taiwan News, page 3:

According to the Central Weather Bureau, Luzhu District received over 50 millimeters of rain on the morning of the 20th while Cianjhen, Siaogang, Cijin and Alian received over 30 millimeters.

2018 June 20, “高雄地區強降雨 市區馬路變水路! [Heavy Rain in Kaohsiung Leads to City-wide Flooding]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:

This study examined the types of illnesses and health issues of the residents living in the countryside of Alian District, Kaohsiung City. The research methods of the study included structured interviews and coding. The interviewee was a retired doctor who had served at a clinic in the countryside of Alian District.

2019, Chiung-Wei Huang, Zhi-Yuan Su, “Common Chronic Illnesses of the Elderly: An Analysis of a Retired Doctor's Perspectives”, in 2019 IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS), →DOI, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:

They were caught drunk driving for the second time from April 4-10 in Kaohsiung's Dashu District, Alian District, and Nanzih District, with three found to be driving without a license.

2022 April 28, Keoni Everington, “Photos of 5 repeat DUI offenders posted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-05-07, Society:


Gümüşhane

A district of Gümüşhane Province, Turkey.


Osmaniye

A district of Osmaniye Province, Turkey.


Nevşehir

A district of Nevşehir Province, Turkey.


Jinning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉寧 /晋宁 (Jìnníng).

Kinning (alternative)
Chinning (alternative)

The finds at Shihchaishan, near Chinning county in Yunnan province, deserve special mention. Between 1955 and 1960 some 40 tombs of the Kingdom of Tien of the Western Han period were unearthed there.

[1973 July, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle (II) — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 7, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, columns 1-2:

The conflict was set off by efforts to build a logistics center for the distribution of manufactured goods in Jinning, a county under Kunming’s jurisdiction, the Kunming government said in a statement on Wednesday.[…]
Some residents in Jinning voiced doubt that the men trucked into the village were construction workers,[…].

2014 October 15, Austin Ramzy, “8 Killed in Clash Over Development in Southwestern China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-08, Sinosphere:


Schwandorf

Upper Palatinate
Upper Palatinate#English

A town and rural district of the Upper Palatinate region, Bavaria, Germany.


Kastamonu

A district of Kastamonu Province, Turkey.


Kırıkkale

A district of Kırıkkale Province, Turkey.


Bartın

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Bartın, from Ancient Greek Παρθένιος (Parthénios). Doublet of Parthenius.


Kırşehir

A district of Kırşehir Province, Turkey.


Pendik

A municipality and district in Istanbul province, Turkey.


Tha Mai

From Thai ท่าใหม่ in 1917; former names for the district include Thai โขมง (kà-mǒong) and Thai แหวน (wɛ̌ɛn).

der

Thai ท่าใหม่

A district of Chanthaburi Province, Thailand.


İslahiye

A town and district in Gaziantep Province, Turkey.


Guelma

Guelma District, a district of Guelma province, Algeria.


Skikda

Skikda District, a district of Skikda province, Algeria.


Boudouaou

Boudouaou District, a district of Boumerdès province, Algeria.


Boumerdès

Boumerdès District, a district of Boumerdès province, Algeria.


Thénia

Thénia District, a district of Boumerdès province, Algeria.


Tizi Ouzou

Tizi Ouzou District, a district of Tizi Ouzou province, Algeria.


Tazmalt

Tazmalt District, a district of Béjaïa province, Algeria.


Mansourah

Bordj Bou Arréridj
Bordj Bou Arréridj#English

Mansourah District (Bordj Bou Arréridj Province), a district of Bordj Bou Arréridj province, Algeria. A municipality in this district is named Mansoura, but may have been spelt Mansourah previously.

Mansourah District (Ghardaïa Province), a district of Ghardaïa province, Algeria.

Mansourah District (Tlemcen Province), a district of Tlemcen province, Algeria.


Oued Zenati

Oued Zenati District, a district of Guelma province, Algeria.


Yumurtalık

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Yumurtalık and Ottoman Turkish یمورطالق (Yumurtalık).

ubor

A district and municipality of Adana Province, Turkey, around the town.


Silifke

From Turkish Silifke and Ottoman Turkish سلفكه (Silifke), from Byzantine Greek Σελεύκεια (Seleúkeia, “Seleucia”), from Ancient Greek Σέλευκος (Séleukos, “Seleucus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”) in honor of its founder Seleucus I Nicator. Doublet of Seleucia.

錫利夫凱 /锡利夫凯

Turkish town on the Göksu — see also Seleucia

A district of Mersin Province, Turkey, around the town.


Alaşehir

From Turkish Alaşehir and Ottoman Turkish آلاشهر (Alaşehir, “Multicolored or Spotted City”).

bor

Alashehir (alternative)
Alasehir (alternative)

A city, municipality, and district of Manisa Province, Turkey.


Samsat

From Turkish Samsat, ultimately from Ancient Greek Σαμόσατα (Samósata). Doublet of Samosata.

A district of Adıyaman Province, in southeastern Turkey.


Toprakkale

A town and district in Osmaniye Province, Turkey.


Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall
Schwäbisch Hall (district)

A rural district in north-east Baden-Württemberg.


Derna

Dernah (alternative)
Darnah (alternative)
Darna (alternative)

A district of Libya; in full, Derna District. Capital: Derna.


Banská Bystrica

A city, district, and region of Slovakia.


Jinja

If cities ailed, Jinja had sleeping sickness. Idi Amin’s sudden expulsion of whites and Asians back in 1972 had hit the city harder than anywhere else. In just over a decade, Jinja’s status as the country’s largest industrial city had become questionable.

2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 372:

A city and district at the north end of Lake Victoria, Uganda.


Cape Coast

Ultimately from Portuguese Cabo Corso (“Short Cape”).

A district in the Central Region of Ghana.


Neamdale

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Naumudalr.

North of Throwend-ham or Thrond-heim lies Neam-dale with its coast station, Hrafnista, and, north of that, Haloga-land’s barren five degrees of latitude stretch along by the sea, north-east, ending in West-firth and the great islands that head the Skerry, islands only visited by Finnish fowlers, fishers or huntsmen in those far-off days.

1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:

(rare, historical) Namdalen (a valley and district of Trøndelag, Norway).