South Mere

From south + Mere; an adapted borrowing of Old Norse Sunnmǿrr, Sunnmǿri, from sunn- (“south”) + Mǿrr.

South Moor (alternative)
South More (alternative)

North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching up over two degrees of latitude.

(rare, historical) Sunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).


Gurdaspur

a city and district in the Indian state of Punjab.


Wardha

A city and district in Maharashtra, India.


Prayagraj

Transliteration of Hindi प्रयागराज (prayāgrāj).

translit

A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India, formerly Allahabad.


Brig

A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.


Kirchdorf an der Krems

A town and district in Upper Austria, Austria.


Strathbogie

A valley and district in north-west Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland; the valley is also spelt Strath Bogie.


Orange Walk

According to folk stories, Orange Walk got its name from the many orange groves of the past that hugged the banks of the New River which flows through the town and was a major trading route centuries ago for the Maya.

Orange Walk Town
Orange Walk Town#English

A district in the north of Belize. Capital: Orange Walk Town.


Stann Creek

From stann, a dialectal form of stand, which in Early Modern English could indicate an inn or trading post.

A district in southern Belize. Capital: Dangriga.


Julfa

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic#English

A city and district in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan.


Khanaqin

A city and district in Diyala governorate, Iraq, near the border with Iran.


Celle

A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.


Barisal

Barisal Division
Barisal Division#English

A district of Barisal Division, Bangladesh.


Comilla

Borrowed from Bengali কুমিল্লা (kumilla).

bor+

Chittagong Division
Chittagong Division#English

One of the eleven districts in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.


Shushan

The cardiovascular prevention progrm was undertaken in two phases: a pilot phase in the Heyedi community in Shushan district of Hefei City and a wider implementation phase, in which the program was implemented in a further seven communities [62].

2018, Xuefeng Zhong, Bert Potemans, Chanuantong Tanasugarn, Edwin B. Fisher, “Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Sherma Zibadi, editors, Lifestyle in Heart Health and Disease, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:

In order to ensure judgmental fairness and justice, lawyers required the court to investigate the act of Hefei National security, to look into their responsibilities and to release two parties on the spot.
On December 12, 2014, Shushan District opened a court session to sentence Yao with one year and ten months of imprisonment.

2019 April, “Rescue of the Dissident's Daughter Annie”, in WRIC team, transl., The Status of Females in Rural China — WRIC records those true history for 10 years, Women's Rights in China (中国妇权), →ISBN, page 270:


Bankura

A city and district in West Bengal, India.


East Hants

Clipping of East Hampshire: a local government district of Hampshire, England, with its headquarters in Petersfield.


Hulan

On October 1, leading members of the Heilungkiang provincial and Harbin city party committees went to rural people's communes and their sub-divisions in Hulan County and on the outskirts of Harbin city to help with autumn harvest.

1978 October 4 [1978 October 2], “NCNA Reportage”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 193, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 9:

The joy that I experienced at that moment cannot be described in words. However “heaven disappoints us”. The train had scarcely reached the district of Hulan (it was destined for Harbin) when I was arrested.

2006, “The Diary of Father Francis Tan Tiande”, in Michael Miller, transl., edited by Gerolamo Fazzini, The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs: Testimonies and Autobiographical Accounts, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

A two-year-old girl was badly injured when she was attacked by the family’s dog at their farm in Hulan district, Harbin,[…]

2014 September 22, “Jinan air quality ranked poorest; rare disease turns muscle into bone”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-26, China Insider:

A district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.


Marj

al-Marj (alternative)
Al Marj (alternative)
Merj (alternative)
el-Merj (alternative)
El Merj (alternative)

From Arabic المَرْج (al-Marj), from ال (al-, “the, place of the”) + مَرْج (marj, “meadow”).

A district of Jabal al Akhdar Governorate, Libya, around the city.


Břeclav

There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier.

1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17:

A town and district in South Moravian Region, Czech Republic.


Ratlam

A city and district in Madhya Pradesh, India.


Fazilka

A city and district in Punjab, India; the district borders onto Pakistan.


Bharuch

Broach (alternative)
Baroach (alternative)
Bhroch (alternative)
Baroche (alternative)
Baruj (alternative)
Barochi (alternative)
Behrug (alternative)

A city and district at the mouth of the Narmada River in Gujarat, India.


Herford

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

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


Tirschenreuth

Upper Palatinate
Upper Palatinate#English

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


Shigu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石鼓 (Shígǔ).

On the fifteenth of that month, the Shigu District People’s Government of Hengyang decided to grant the title of revolutionary martyr to Ding.

2002 August 9, Deng Fei, Wu Sanmeng, Chen Ying, “Missing the Martyr Mark”, in Beijing Today [今日北京], number 65, →ISSN, →OCLC, 声音 [shēngyīn, Voice], page 6, column 1:

"Guan asked some of his friends from Hengyang to go with him to register, and all four of them were detained there," he said, adding that another associate of Guan's was visited by government officials in his home district of Shigu, and warned not to get involved with his bid for candidacy.

2016 September 20, Siu-san Wong, Sing Man, Luisetta Mudie, “Four Held in China's Hunan Over Bid For Independent Election Candidacy”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2016-09-21, China:

Thirdly, from the perspective of economic connection, the 12 districts and counties in Hengyang are divided into five levels. The first level is the connection between Shigu District and Yanfeng District in the central city. The second level connection intensity is between Shigu District and Zhengxiang District in the central city and between Zhengxiang District and Hengyang County.

2020, Zhi-yuan Wang, Chen Hai-ting, Ou Yang-mei, “Research on Regional Traffic and Economic Linkage Based on Accessibility and Gravity Model--Taking Hengyang, China as an example”, in 2020 4th International Workshop on Renewable Energy and Development (IWRED 2020), →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-16, page 1:

The time bank in Shigu District of Hengyang City, together with the School of Nursing in the University of South China, formed a model featuring a combination of medical treatment and daily care.

2022, Fan Ying, “Localization of foreign community-based care models in urbanizing China”, in Aging in the Context of Urbanization: Social Determinants for the Depression of the Chinese Older Population, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=MORFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64:


Wulai

Larva has been found breeding in rock holes on stream beds at Neishuangchi, A2; in rock holes near the water-fall at Wulai, E32; and in rock holes on stream bed at Nuannuan, B7.

1962, Pacific Insects, volume 4, Entomology Department, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 623:

Fushan Village is almost due south of Wulai along a tributary of the Nanshih River. It is surrounded by mountains of a spur of the Syueshan Mountain Range.

2005, Birdwatching in Taiwan, Taipei: Wild Bird Society of Taipei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

Wulai, a mountain township and a protected water reservation area 25 minutes from Taipei by taxi, is known for its mountainous hot springs, river-tracing excursions, a combination of hiking, climbing and swimming up the turquoise Nanshih River, and the 8,000-year-old aboriginal Atayal community whose lifestyle is being touted as a more carbon-efficient model. Taiya Popo, a restaurant on Wulai’s main drag, serves traditional Atayal cuisine, much of it vegetable-based like pumpkin dumplings, rice-stuffed bamboo and stir-fried fern.

2014 December 3, Adam H. Graham, “Taiwan, an Island of Green in Asia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-04, Travel:

A whitewater rafting excursion turned tragic when a rafter was thrown from his boat and swept downriver in New Taipei’s Wulai District on Sunday (June 4).

2023 June 4, Duncan DeAeth, “One missing after rafting accident in New Taipei's Wulai”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2023-06-06, Society:

A district of New Taipei City, northern Taiwan.


Badulla

A city and district, the capital of Uva Province, Sri Lanka.


Yaohai

On May 15, 2013, the Open Day of the deputies to the People’s Congress of Daxing Town of Yaohai District (Hefei, Anhui), the deputies visit the communities and the residents to listen to the opinions of the people and have face-to-face communication with the residents.

2014 June, Yang Deshan [杨德山], Zhao Shumei [赵淑梅], “Organizational Structure”, in Song Jianting [宋建廷], Xiao Ying [肖颖], transl., edited by Wang Feng [王峰], The Communist Party of China and Contemporary China [中国共产党与当代中国] (Contemporary China [当代中国系列]), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

The unauthorised bus stops – all of them in Yaohai district, Hefei – were identified by officials from the Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau this week, Anhui News reported on Friday.[…]
But the fake bus stops may not be confined to Yaohai district.

2018 July 14, “Chinese city duped by fake bus stops built by advertising agency”, in New Straits Times, archived from the original on 2019-09-28:

The company's initial development is scheduled to be in the vocational education city of Yaohai District, Hefei City, Anhui Province. Consider the pre-administration funds and risks and the pre-environmental car wash service project.

2020, Lei Yang, Fanling Zeng, Daoru Yao, “Exploration on Innovation Education of Higher Vocational Automobile Specialty Based on Internet Thinking”, in Baoming Liu, Limin Jia, Yong Qin, Zhigang Liu, Lijun Diao, Min An, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2019, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 394:


Luyang

Luyang District Court in Hefei encountered the embarrassing situation that the defendants, the children of the plaintiff, refused to execute the judgment which ordered the defendants to visit the elderly on regular basis.

2021, Falian Zhang, “Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Orientations: Obligations and Rights”, in A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 177:

In terms of budget, the students pay around 400-500 RMB (roughly equals to 70-80 US$) every semester, while the nine teaching staff receive a nominal salary of 600-700 RMB per month (as a reference, the minimum salary of Hefei city was 720 RMB per month as of 2010, which was raised to 1010 RMB in May 2011) for their part time teaching job. The school, however, is not recognised by the educational authority of Luyang district, Hefei municipality.

2022, Yannan Ding, “Resistance, Public Art and Citizenship”, in Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103:


Baohe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) talks to children of the Jinputao school in Xinnacun village in the Baohe district of Hefei on October 30, 2015.

2015 October 30, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-23:

The low counters at the health centre in Baohe district in Hefei, the capital of Anhui, caused patients some discomfort when they tried to communicate with cashiers and doctors through the windows, according to a report in Chongqing Daily.

2018 July 11, Sidney Leng, “Chinese hospitals bow to social media pressure over ‘poor service’ of uncomfortably low service counters”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-07-11, People & Culture:


Jinghu

The people's procuratorate of Jinghu district, Wuhu brought the case against a waste treatment company in neighboring Jiangsu Province.

2018 July 17, “Twelve charged for dumping 2,500 tons of toxic waste in Yangtze River”, in China Tibet Online, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

In September 2018, the Jinghu District People’s Court in Wuhu, Anhui Province sentenced 12 people from the Pol Shin Fastener Company between four months and six years in prison for committing serious interprovincial environmental crimes in Jiangsu and Anhui in 2016 and 2017.

2019 March 28, Gillian Zwicker, Jennifer Turner, “Tapping the Power in China’s Municipal Sludge”, in New Security Beat, archived from the original on 2019-03-28:


Yijiang

Although Wuwei county had the most confirmed cases, the results indicated that depression and anxiety scores of officers in Wuwei county were significantly higher than those in Wuhu County. Police in Yijiang district and Jinghu district had higher depression scores than those in Wuwei county.

2020, Lili Yuan et al., “A Survey of Psychological Responses During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemic among Chinese Police Officers in Wuhu”, in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, volume 13, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-03, page 2696, column 1:


Wanzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 灣沚 /湾沚 (Wānzhǐ).


Fanchang

The plight of millions of refugees behind the Chinese lines and the urgent need for organized relief and medical aid on a large scale are brought out in the following eye-witness account of conditions in the Yangtsze River valley region to the west of Wuhu, particularly in Fanchang hsien.

1939 May 20, Agnes Smedley, “China's Refugee Millions, Stricken By Hunger and Disease, Call for Aid”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 88, number 12, →OCLC, page 378, column 1:

A 64-year-old man, wanted for trafficking more than 300 women, was recently caught after being on the run for 20 years, the reports. Police from the man's hometown of Dingyuan county, Chuzhou, found him in Fanchang county, Wuhu.

2012 December 4, “China Digest, December 4, 2012”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-29, China:


Longzihu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍子湖 /龙子湖 (Lóngzǐhú).

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a citizen for nucleic acid testing in Longzihu District of Bengbu City, east China's Anhui Province, July 17, 2022.

2022 July 18, “Bengbu in Anhui starts new round of mass nucleic acid testing”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-07-18:

On 10th July, we arrived at Guantang Community, Longzihu District, Bengbu City, Anhui Province to conduct field research and carry out the research work according to the plan made in the previous meeting.

2023, Miaomiao Fan, “Youthful Courage to Chase the Green Dream, and Build a Civilised Garden Together”, in Academic Journal of Management and Social Sciences, volume 3, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-09-06, page 230, column 2:


Lachin

From Azerbaijani laçın (“falcon”), or possibly a Turkish or Ottoman Turkish cognate.

A town and district of Azerbaijan, under Armenian control between the two Nagorno-Karabakh wars.


Nanshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.

Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.

[1978, Lynn T. White, III, “Citizenship Incentives”, in Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88:

SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.

1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-22:

Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.

2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, WHAT'S DOING IN:

(historical) A district of Shanghai, China.


Česká Lípa

/ˈt͡ʃɛskɑːˈliːpə/

A town, the district capital of the district of the same name, Liberec Region, Czech Republic, first mentioned in 1263, now the most populous of all Czech towns.

A district of the Liberec Region, Czech Republic, subdivided into the two administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence of Česká Lípa and Nový Bor.


Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Originally two towns, Garmisch and Partenkirchen, which retain their identities, merged into a municipality in 1935.

A municipality and rural district in Upper Bavaria region, Bavaria, Germany.


Rum Cay

From the loss of a vessel transporting rum on its reefs. Its identity with Christopher Columbus's Santa María de la Concepción is disputed.


Nam Sách

A rural district of Hải Dương Province, Vietnam.


Westmorland and Furness

A unitary authority of Cumbria, England, created on 1 April 2023, replacing Barrow-in-Furness district, Eden district and South Lakeland district, as well as Cumbria County Council.


Tiruvallur

Transliteration of Tamil திருவள்ளூர் (tiruvaḷḷūr).


Dithmarschen

Unadapted borrowing from German Dithmarschen.

ubor

A district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.


Linyuan

A cluster of Japanese encephalitis virus infection has been confirmed in Kaohsiung's Linyuan District, including two confirmed cases and one suspected case, an official with the city's health department said Monday.

2018 May 28, “Japanese encephalitis cluster confirmed in Kaohsiung”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2024-03-17, Society:

A fire broke out at Kaohsiung’s Linyuan petrochemical plant on Saturday (March 16), per CNA.

2024 March 17, Michael Nakhiengchanh, “Fire breaks out at Kaohsiung’s Linyuan plant”, in Taiwan News, sourced from TAIPEI (Taiwan News), archived from the original on 2024-05-01, Society:


Daliao

On 6 November, a fire broke out at the waste dump in the Tafa scrap metal special zone in Taliao Township, Kaohsiung County, which provoked fierce protests among the villagers.

[1987 May 6 [1987 January], “Report on 1986 Human Rights Situation in Taiwan”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 87-035, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from KUANHUAI TSACHI^([sic – meaning TSACHIH]) [CARE MAGAZINE], No 53, pp 4-12, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, TAIWAN, page 119:

A couple and their two children were found dead inside a car on a riverside in Kaohsiung's Daliao District early Friday in what is believed to be a murder-suicide.

2020 December 4, Flor Wang, Hung Hsueh-kuang, “Family of four found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Kaohsiung”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2020-12-04, Society:


Guichi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴池 /贵池 (Guìchí).

Born in 1917 in Guichi County in the central province of Anhui, Mr. Yao studied chemistry at Qinghua University in Beijing, where he led demonstrations against the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek.

1994 December 13, Patrick E. Tyler, “Yao Yilin, A Hard-Liner, Is Dead at 77”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-11-05, Obituaries:


Bad Dürkheim

A spa town and rural district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Jhansi

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


Hunei

Protesters from Kaohsiung’s Lujhu (路竹) and Hunei (湖內) districts said the city government failed to promptly publish online that a controversial iron wire and screw factory had passed an environmental review.

2016 September 1, Abraham Gerber, “Kaohsiung mayor ignoring public: protesters”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-09-01, Taiwan News, page 3:

A meat company in Hunei, Kaohsiung received a batch of chickens from Yulin County on the 13th, and the poultry were suspected of infection due to the apparent skin flushing.

2017 February 15, Chieh-Tsun Wang, 許政俊 [Hsu Cheng-Chun], “南部分傳雞鴨疑染H5N6 各縣市加強消毒 [H5N6 SPREADS, DEAD POULTRY DUMPED, INSPECTIONS RAISED]”, in Bryant Chang, transl., Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:


Helmstedt

A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.


Zhongzheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 中正 (Zhōngzhèng).

Chungcheng (alternative)
Jhongjheng (alternative)

A 7-Eleven store in Taipei's Jhongjheng District, one of many in Taiwan selling classic dishes 24 hours a day.

[2006 February, Rich Lang, “What? No Big Gulp?”, in Saveur, number 90, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:

The first branch in Taiwan's Zhongzheng district will open in the middle of the month and four more will follow in the next six months.

2010 December 8, Yvonne Liu, “Centaline to branch out in Taiwan and Singapore”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-08-03:

A district of the city of Taipei, Taiwan.

At 12 p.m. on Wednesday, the Keelung Fire Department received a 119 call from the operator of a mountainside bed and breakfast on Zhengbin Road in Keelung City's Zhongzheng District.

2019 November 28, Keoni Everington, “Fireman bitten by highly venomous Taiwan habu in Keelung BB”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2024-08-06, Society:

A district of the city of Keelung, Taiwan.


Đồng Xuân

A rural district of Phú Yên Province, Vietnam.


An Lão

A district of Bình Định Province, Vietnam.


Bijiang

Spring is in full bloom everywhere. And farmers in Guizhou Province are not only turning rapeseed into edible oil, but also into paint. In Bijiang District, Tongren City, and Pingba District, Anshun City, farmers have painted the most enthusiastic look of spring with blossoming rapeseed flowers.

2023 March 10, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guizhou Province, “Encounter a stunning spring in the sea of rapeseed flowers in southwest China's Guizhou Province”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2023-11-22:


Wanshan

"The biggest problem has been keeping the children warm at night," said a farmer, Ye Xiaoling, in the Wanshan area of the Guizhou prefecture of Tongren, which has also been without power since January. "Our problem is that our homes and everything else are not used to such cold."

2008 February 6, “Millions of Chinese still without power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-12, Asia Pacific:


Futian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福田 (Fútián).

The spectacle, which took place Nov. 29 in the Shenzhen district of Futian, was in many ways unremarkable for a nation in which wrongdoers have long been subject to public humiliation.

2006 December 9, Edward Cody, “Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-31:

In Shenzhen’s Futian district, on the ninth floor of a concrete tower, there is an open-air sales floor that works as a sort of corporate embassy for the social network.

2019 February 7, Paul Mozur, Lin Qiqing, “How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-07, Technology:

A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.


Changjiang

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒ(j)æŋ/

/(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈd͡ʒiɑŋ/

A district of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.


Qubadlı

Gubadly (alternative)
Qubadli (alternative)


Guantian

The reports said that local police received a tip on Sunday morning the bronze statue of Yoichi Hatta at the memorial park in Guantian in Tainan was defaced.

2017 April 16, “Statue of famed Japanese engineer found decapitated in southern Taiwan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-17, Politics:

The Hulupi Natural Park in Guantian District of Tainan is well-known for its beautiful scenery and ecological diversity.

2022 November 14, G. Chen, “People Snagging Fish With Treble Hooks at Hulupi Natural Park 官田生態公園 傳移工違法用三爪鉤釣魚”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2024-05-29:


Huangzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湟中 (Huángzhōng).

The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.
Students in Rebkong appeared to have returned to classes by Wednesday.

2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-07-14, Asia Pacific:

A district of Xining, Qinghai, China, formerly a county.


Chengxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城西 (Chéngxī).


Chengdong

According to QINGHAI RIBAO, on the second day of the lunar new year, Zhao Haifeng, secretary of the provincial CPC Committee, (Zhang Jifu), deputy mayor of Xining, and other leading comrades went to a new residential area in (Linjiaya), (Yuanshan) in (Chengdong) District, Xining City, to call on those people of Hui Nationality who were previously transferred to the rural areas and have now been approved to live in the city.

1985 April 2 [1985 February 27], “Qinghai's Shao Haifeng Calls on People of Hui Nationality”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 85-032, sourced from Xining Qinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106:

Though the walls have since been razed, the boundaries they once demarcated remain salient as Xining's contemporary street grid follows the path where they once stood. Most residents still recognize the city's Chengdong District, which sits on top of the former Muslim city, as the Hui Quarter.

2022, David R. Stroup, “"God is a Drug": Ethnic Politics in the Xi Jinping Era”, in Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:


Bozüyük

A city and district in Bilecik Province, Marmara region, Turkey.


Jinghai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靜海 /静海 (Jìnghǎi).


Xiqing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西青 (Xīqīng).

The plant will be run as a subsidiary of SMIC in cooperation with the government of Tianjin's Xiqing district, and will have an initial registered capital of $5 billion, the filing said.

2022 August 27, Josh Horwitz, “Chinese chip foundry SMIC to invest $7.5 bln in new fab in Tianjin”, in David Goodman, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-27, Technology:

The project, with a total investment of US$7.5 billion, began construction last Saturday, according to a report by Tianjin Daily, the city’s official newspaper. Tianjin has been under partial lockdown to combat Covid since late August.
SMIC said on August 27 it had entered into a cooperation framework agreement with two local government authorities in the Xiqing district to build the new fab.

2022 September 28, Ann Cao, “China’s biggest chip maker SMIC pushes ahead with construction of new Tianjin plant despite Covid-19 lockdowns”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-28, Big Tech:


Jinnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 津南 (Jīnnán).

In Tianjin, schools are the hotbed of infections and all schools in Jinnan district in Tianjin have been suspended.

2022 January 11, Josephine Ma, “Omicron: Tianjin casts wide net to track new transmission routes in outbreak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-11, News:

Large fissures appeared on roads near a residential complex in Tianjin's Jinnan district and geological experts said they were likely caused by underground cavities below a depth of 1,300 m (4,270 feet), the Tianjin government said on Thursday on social media.

2023 June 9, Bernard Orr, “Thousands evacuated in China's Tianjin after cracks appear near high-rises”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-09, China:


Hedong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河東 /河东 (Hédōng).

Hedong district is still a work in progress but has large expansion plans in the future. It is a quiet area of the city and has many walking areas for browsing that include the 600 year old scholar tree and large copper bells.

2010 May, Jeanie Carroll, “History and Modern Perspective”, in 厉静, editor, Tianjin Basics [精彩天津], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

The two blasts, which went off some time after 8pm, happened in the city’s Hedong district, home to over 900,000 people, including many ethnic minorities, according to Tianjin’s yearbook.

2023 June 14, Sylvie Zhuang, “3 dead after firework blasts hit apartment blocks in Chinese city of Tianjin; suspect detained”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14, Politics:


Heping

When the coronavirus struck, local officials sprang into action. The district of Heping in particular seized on the city’s huge supply of blue-colored construction walls as a way to stop the virus’s spread. It helps that Tianjin neighbors Hebei Province, an industrial area where steel mills are plentiful and supplies can be easily found.

2020 March 4, Cao Li, “A ‘Blue Great Wall’ Divides a City as It Battles the Coronavirus”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-04:


Nankai

In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college graduates, mainly artists who drew blueprints.

1986, Marcia Yudkin [尤德金], “Who Are China's Individual Businesspeople?”, in Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China [社会主义中国的个体经济], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

The report alleged that the Hong Kong-registered association lacked the right credentials to qualify as a nonprofit group. The sleuthing reporter tracked down the website of the China Urine Therapy Association and found grounds for suspicion there as well.
“After visiting the physical address for the website, it was found to be in an old residential neighborhood of Nankai District in Tianjin,” a port city near Beijing, the report said. “There was an old man inside, and he had nothing to do with urine therapy.”

2014 June 27, Chris Buckley, “People’s Daily Takes Firm Stance Against Urine Consumption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Sinosphere:


Hongqiao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅橋 /红桥 (Hóngqiáo).

Not long ago an exhibition of class education was inaugurated at the “Three Stones” Historical Museum in Hungchiao District, Tientsin.

[1969, “Chronicle”, in Chinese Literature, number 1, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:

Against that backdrop, Mr. Liu, a former lawyer with a long interest in psychology, decided that the people of Tianjin needed some help apologizing, "as a way of relieving pressure, reducing barriers and the many negative feelings between people today."
In fact, the apology company is an arm of a psychological stress reduction center that he also runs in some low concrete buildings that belong to the Hongqiao district government, his partner in what he hopes will be a profitable venture.
"Our society is changing very fast and competition is very harsh, so everyone now feels pressure in his heart," Mr. Liu said, sitting under a trellis bearing plastic fruit that covers the ceiling of the center's group counseling room.

2001 January 3, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Tianjin Journal; For a Fee, This Chinese Firm Will Beg Pardon for Anyone”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-29:


Beichen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北辰 (Běichén).

The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.[…]
It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.

2012 March 19, Zhou Xin, Nick Edwards, “China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 2024-07-04, World:

Monday’s fire occurred in the Beichen district, an area far closer to the urban core of Tianjin.

2015 October 12, Michael Forsythe, “China: Fire Strikes Tianjin, 2 Months After Fatal Blast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-16, Asia Pacific:


Dongli

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東麗 /东丽 (Dōnglì).

Enterprises continue to put more money into control of water pollution (42 per cent of total pollution control funds invested) than into control of other types of pollution and the Dongli district in Tianjin is home to China’s largest sewage works.

1998, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Natural Resources”, in Brian Hook, editor, Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis, volume 4, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

Workers at the factory in the Dongli District of Tianjin, a near Beijing, stopped work on Tuesday afternoon, demanding wage rises and improved benefits, said the Xinhua report.

2010 June 30, Chris Buckley, “China strike hits Japanese electronics plant - report”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-03, MONEY NEWS:


Ninghe

* The Baodi Natural Gas Utilization Project will supply gas to industrial and business users and 450,000 homes in the districts of Baodi, Ninghe and Jizhou in the northern municipality of Tianjin.

2019 September 27, Shivani Singh, Beijing Newsroom, “China's Kunlun Energy starts gas pipeline project in Tianjin - CNPC”, in Aditya Soni, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-02-04:


Baodi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶坻 /宝坻 (Bǎodǐ).

Tianjin's Baodi district government, together with Hong Kong-listed property developer Hopson Development began construction of the project in 2002.

2013 September 10, Mandy Zuo, “3,000 villas, but no one’s home: Inside the Jing Jin ghost city”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-09-10, China:

Of 102 confirmed cases in the city, at least 33 patients worked or shopped at a department store in the Baodi district, or had close contact with employees or customers, according to the Tianjin health authorities.[…]
In addition, emergency measures were imposed over sections of Baodi — home to nearly one million people — with all but two entrances and exits for certain residential areas sealed off and security personnel on round-the-clock patrols.

2020 February 11, “The Illness Now Has a Name, COVID-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-12:


Jizhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 薊州 /蓟州 (Jìzhōu).

Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf.

[1901, Great Britain Foreign Office Correspondence on China, 1872-1904, volume 4, →OCLC, page 73:

They implanted the Jizhou District (薊城, 薊縣) in the NW corner of Tianjin municipality as the place feoffed to the descendants of first legitimate ruler, the Yellow Emperor, Yao in another scripture. The Jizhou District (薊縣) was the metropolis of Baekik descendants and built the nation of YaeMaek (濊貊國) where King Dongmyeong had settled.

2020, Lee Mosol, Ancient History of Korea, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GmUKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT91:


Tirebolu

From Turkish Tirebolu and Ottoman Turkish تیرهبولی (Tirebolu), from Byzantine Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from Ancient Greek τρι- (tri-, “tri-: three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Tripoli and Tripolis.

der

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


Chikkamagaluru

Borrowed from Kannada ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು (cikkamagaḷūru).

bor+

a city and district in Karnataka, India.


Palakkad

Borrowed from Malayalam പാലക്കാട് (pālakkāṭŭ).


Mayiladuthurai

a city and district in Tamil Nadu, India.


Tampin

A town and district in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.


Kuala Selangor

From Malay kuala + Selangor (“the river”).

A town and district in Selangor, Malaysia.


Viluppuram

Borrowed from Tamil விழுப்புரம் (viḻuppuram).

Villupuram (alternative)
Vizhuppuram (alternative)


Tanah Merah

From Malay tanah merah (red land, soil, earth).


Jessore

One of the ten districts in the Khulna Division of Bangladesh.


Morvern

A peninsula and district in Highland council area, Scotland, bounded by Loch Linnhe, Sound of Mull and Loch Sunart.


Goms

A district and region in Valais canton, Switzerland.


C of W

CofW (alternative)
C-of-W (alternative)
C Of W (alternative)
C-Of-W (alternative)

City of Westminster
City of Westminster#English

Abbreviation of City of Westminster: A city, a borough of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.


Horqin

CH/T 4007 transliteration of Mongolian ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ, in turn from Classical Mongolian ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ (qorčin) and Middle Mongol 豁儿臣 (qorčin).

A district of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Qinbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽北 /钦北.

The presence of expanding local government bureaus and private entrepreneurs in Qinzhou Prefecture provided avenues for employment, thus pulling people into the county towns, and even smaller urban centers. For example, the emerging towns in QinBei District have become urban, not only as a result of population growth but also as a result of political influence.

[2021 February 25, Haiying Feng, Victor R. Squires, Jingji Wu, “Ecosystem Services Provisioning, Urban Growth and the Rural–Urban Interface: A Case Study from China”, in Land, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-09:

Cases of corruption in Qinzhou City were also reported in the media. One such case took place after an auction in the Qinbei District of Qinzhou City in autumn 2011 (Jiang 2015).

2022, “State Ownership and Governmental Management of River Sand”, in River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:

A district of Qinzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Qinnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽南 /钦南.

In 2007, the government of Shafu Town in Qinnan District, Guangxi, forced villagers of several villages in Dashigu to lease land to the government at a rate of RMB 580 per mu per year. The farmers refused to comply.

2009, Wang Keqin, “Restoring Private Ownership of Rural Lands to Safeguard the Basic Rights of Farmers”, in Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighanthan, editors, Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

On June 7, 2021, the Qinnan District People’s Court of Qinzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), sentenced to jail penalties 21 members of the Christian new religious movement known as “Bloody Holy Spirit” (血水圣灵) to jail penalties under Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code, which forbids being active in a banned religious movement classified as a xie jiao. 15 of them were women.

2021 June 18, Qi Junzao, “21 Bloody Holy Spirit Members Sentenced in Guangxi”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 2021-06-18, News China:


Pingba

A substantial minority of party members in the brigade were probably recruited during the Cultural Revolution; in Guizhou’s Pingba County, for example, 40.9 percent of the county’s 1,522 party branch members were recruited from 1966 to 1976.

1988, John P. Burns, “The Organizational Context of Political Participation in Rural China”, in Political Participation in Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:

A district of Anshun, Guizhou, China, formerly a county.


Xixiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西秀 (Xīxiù).

[…]rescuers watch as a bus that fell into a lake is recovered in the Xixiu District of Anshun, southwestern China’s Guizhou Province, Tuesday, July 7, 2020.

2020 July 7, “Bus in China plunges into a lake, killing 21”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-07, Asia & Pacific:

Guizhou Hongyingda Construction Project Management Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the finance bureau of Xixiu district in Anshun city, issued a 1.8 billion yuan ($250 million) five-year non-public bond Friday with a coupon of 4.8%, according to a filing on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s private disclosure platform seen by Bloomberg.

2024 February 26, “China State Firm Sells Bonds to Help Fund LGFV in Rare Move”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 2024-02-26, Markets:


Eluru

A city and district of Andhra Pradesh, India.


Thompson-Nicola

From the Thompson Country and Nicola Country of British Columbia.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A regional district in south-central British Columbia, Canada. Seat: Kamloops.


Xiangdong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘東 /湘东 (Xiāngdōng).

The activities are not one-sided. In August this year, a delegation of teachers from Xiangdong district went to the University of Derby for a summer programme on the English language and to observe various pedagogies adopted by the university.

2016 October 25, “Far-sighted strategy: University of Derby is reaping the rewards of its hard work with Chinese counterparts”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-29, Special Reports:

* Changfeng extends its gas distribution pipeline to Luqian industrial area in Xiangdong district, Pingxiang city, Jiangxi province, China

2016 December 5, “BRIEF-Changfeng extends gas pipeline to Luqian industrial area”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-12-06, Market News:

A district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.


Anyuan

Mao returned to Pingxiang County a year later, in the fall of 1921, and visited the Anyuan district. In an attempt to organize the miners in this area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, Mao spent a week in the fall of 1921 investigating the lives of miners and their families.

1990, Mao Zedong, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

The city of Pingxiang, which includes the Anyuan district of Mao fame, is home to eight state-run coal mines.

2016 April 11, Hannah Beech, “Labor Unrest Grows in China, Even in the Historic Heartlands of Revolution”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-04-12:


Lubei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 路北 (Lùběi).

Ma Aijun, former head of the Lubei district branch of the Tangshan Public Security Bureau in Hebei province, was convicted and sentenced for sheltering the gang from justice for years of earlier offending.

2024 July 4, Sylvie Zhuang, “China to press on with organised crime crackdown, keeping up campaign’s intensity”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-08, China / Politics:


Ernakulam

Borrowed from Malayalam എറണാകുളം (eṟaṇākuḷaṁ).


Idukki

Borrowed from Malayalam ഇടുക്കി (iṭukki).


Fraser-Fort George

Named after the Fraser River and Fort George, which later became Prince George.

A regional district in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.


Noakhali

Transliteration of নোয়াখালী (nōẇakhali), a compound of নোয়া (nōẇa, a dialectal variant of নয়া (noẏa, “new”)) + খালী (khali, a suffixed form of খাল (khal, “canal”)), literally meaning "new canal".

com

a dialectal variant of <i class="Beng mention" lang="bn">নয়া</i> (noẏa, “new”)

a suffixed form of <i class="Beng mention" lang="bn">খাল</i> (khal, “canal”)

One of the eleven districts in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.


Dinghai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定海 (Dìnghǎi).

He recently spoke at a conference denouncing the destruction of Dinghai, an old town on Zhoushan island, near Shanghai, best known as the real object of British covetousness during the Opium War (Hong Kong was actually a mistake).

2001 April 20, Jonathan Napack, “A Firebrand Agitates to Preserve China's Memory”, in The New York Times, sourced from International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-10, Style:

A district of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.


Xinzhuang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新莊 (Xīnzhuāng).

The New Taipei City Government’s development plans for Sinjhuang District (新莊) would see residents forced out of their homes, residents of the Wenzaizun (塭仔圳) area said yesterday, calling on the Ministry of the Interior to reject rezoning plans.

[2016 March 18, Abraham Gerber, “Residents criticize Sinjhuang development plans”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-18, Taiwan News, page 4:

New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) pledged to build the city's Xinzhuang District into a hub for Taiwan cinema at a ceremony to mark the inauguration of a new permanent base for the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) Friday.

2022 January 7, Teng Pei-ju, “New Taipei mayor vows to build Xinzhuang into Taiwan film hub”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-01-07, Culture:

The northern section of the New Taipei MRT Circular (Yellow) Line is expected to be completed by 2031, facilitating travel between Lujhou (蘆洲) and Sindian (新店) districts, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said yesterday.
When the section from New Taipei Industrial Park Station in Sinjhuang District (新莊) to Jiannan Road Station in Taipei’s Zhongshan District (中山) is completed, people will be able to travel between Lujhou and Sindian without changing trains, Hou said during an inspection of the section’s depot, which is under construction.[…]
The Circular Line’s western section was opened in 2020. It runs between Dapinglin Station in Sindian and New Taipei Industrial Park Station.

[2025 January 22, “MRT section to open in 2031: Hou”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-01-22, Taiwan News, page 2:


Qingxiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青秀.

The government of Nanning, Guangxi, denied on Tuesday that court police physically assaulted a lawyer but still ordered the court to apologise and pay compensation.
Lawyer Wu Liangshu walked out of a Qingxiu district court half-naked on Friday claiming he was beaten by three court policemen in the presence of two judges and one other official after his request to file a case was rejected.

2016 June 8, Mimi Lau, “Update ‘No harm intended’ but Chinese court told to apologise to lawyer whose clothes were ripped off”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-08, Politics:

Qingxiu District is one of Nanning's most picturesque and culturally rich areas, renowned for its stunning natural landscapes and significant cultural landmarks.

2024, “Navigating the City”, in The Complete Travel Guide for Nanning (南宁), YouGuide Ltd, →ISBN, page 28:

A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Gorakhpur

Borrowed from Hindi गोरखपुर (gorakhpur).

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


Lalitpur

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


Bayankhongor

From Mongolian Баянхонгор (Bajanxongor).

Monkhbaatar’s great-grandfather had been a prominent lama in the southwestern province of Bayankhongor.

2023 November 9, Aatish Taseer, “An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-09:

A city, district, and province of Mongolia.

巴彥洪戈爾 /巴彦洪戈尔

a city, district and province of Mongolia


Jiangyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江源 (Jiāngyuán).

At least 11 workers were killed in a gas explosion in a privately run coal mine in Jilin province on Tuesday, state media reports said.
The blast occurred on the site of an illegal coal mine in Zhaxi, a city in Jiangyuan county in Baishan municipality.

2002 November 28, “11 miners killed in gas blast”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-22, Latest:


Yujiang

Already the wealth and power that Mr. Zhang has gathered are jarring, partly because his base is not Beijing or Shanghai, but this small county seat of Yujiang in Jiangxi Province. Jiangxi is a poor, landlocked area that early in the century was a Communist guerrilla base. Most of the buildings around Yujiang are dilapidated brick homes with propaganda slogans proclaiming "Socialism is Good!" or calling on people to have just one child.

1992 May 19, Nicholas D. Kristof, “An Empire Run Amid Rice Paddies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Business:


Yuehu

Yingtan City Public Security Bureau dispatched the most skillful policemen to investigate the case. On 7 April, public security personnel found that Zhu, a student of Yuehu District Bailu High School, had this kind of handgun, as well as dark-red gunpowder and shots.

1990 May 30 [1990 May 4], Li Minyuan (2621 3046 0954) [李民園], Chen Xi (7115 1585) [陳希], “A Lair for Illegally Manufacturing and Selling Guns Smashed in Yingtan City”, in Daily Report: China, number 90-104, sourced from Beijing RENMIN GONGAN BAO p 1 [人民公安報], translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 58, columns 1–2:


Sankt Veit an der Glan

St. Veit an der Glan (alternative)
St. Veit a.d. Glan (alternative)

A town and district in Carinthia, Austria.


Dachau

A town and rural district of Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany.


Farrukhabad

A district of Kanpur division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Fatehgarh.


East Kootenay

A regional district in the south-east corner of British Columbia, Canada.


Chao'an

A district of Chaozhou, eastern Guangdong, China.


Reutlingen

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


Haibowan

Carved out of Ordos and Alashan territory, Wuhai city is the chief coal mining center of southwestern Inner Mongolia. Wuhai city was originally two towns, Wuda on the western side of the Huang (Yellow) River and Haibowan on the eastern side. In 1976 they were merged as Wuhai. With an area of 2,350 square kilometers (907 square miles), the total population is 314,148, of whom 8,554 are Mongol.

2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Wuhai”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 589, column 2:

He then taught in Haibowan District in Wuhai City in Inner Mongolia (located on the Yellow River between the Gobi and Ordos deserts) for five years, and worked as a teaching director for three years.

2011, Changyun Kang, Keqin Liu, Yuping Li, “A cross-cultural professional learning community”, in Janette Ryan, editor, Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices (Routledge Contemporary Series), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, China / Education, page 62:

A district of Wuhai, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Wuda

In 2003, paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences and colleague Jun Wang of China’s Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology made a remarkable find: a fossil forest, spectacularly preserved in a volcanic ash fall 300 million years ago. The site, in a mining area in northern China’s Wuda District, has provided a rich source of fossil specimens ever since.

2021 March 12, Katherine Unger Baillie, “‘Pompeii of prehistoric plants’ unlocks evolutionary secret”, in Penn Today, archived from the original on 2021-03-13, Science & Technology:


Meilan

This is what happened when an unnamed Chinese man got into an argument with a woman over a parking place in the Meilan District of Haikou City, Hainan, China. She parked her scooter and attacked the man when he began shouting at her to move.

2014, Jamie Frater, “Crime”, in Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Astounding Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History and More, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 497:

On Thursday, the woman, surnamed Chen, was convicted of posing a threat to public safety after she slapped the driver, Fu Chuanming, on the face during a dispute in December at Haikou, Hainan island, the website of the People’s Daily reported.
Meilan District People’s Court passed judgment in the 29-year old,^([sic – meaning year-old]) but it was unclear if she would appeal, the report said.

2018 May 30, Keith Chan, “Haikou’s convention and exhibition industry hits world stage”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, Business:

On paper, this has resulted in an unprecedented level of Party-state penetration, particularly in rural areas. Thus, Shaanxi's Yangchuan, with a population of only 170,100, constructed a whopping 387 Civilized Practice Centers, one for every 440 people (Yan'an Ribao 2019). Oddly, the difference between heavily populated and less populated areas is negligible: Shandong's Pingdu boasted the third-lowest number of people served per Center (765) (Qingdao Wenmingwang 2020), whereas Hainan's Meilan District, with half the population, succeeded in penetrating far less successfully, with each center serving a median of 11,635 (Haikouwang 2019).

2024, Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt, Patricia M. Thornton, “How to Think Xi Jinping Thought”, in Stanley Rosen, Daniel C. Lynch, editors, Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference, 2nd edition, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages https://books.google.com/books?id=OiT6EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT28:


Qiongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊山 /琼山 (Qióngshān).

The most famous exile was Hai Rui, a Ming dynasty mandarin who hailed, like Charlie Soong, from Qiongshan county, east of Haikou.

1986 January 19, John F. Burns, “SURF AND SAND IN CHINA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-03-30, Travel, page 21:

The Qiongshan district public security bureau branch made the announcement on its Weibo account and said it had launched an investigation into the officers, but did not reveal how many had been suspended.

2018 July 26, Danny Mok, “Mainland Chinese police officers suspended over mishandling of Hong Kong director Sharon Lam’s attempted rape report against trainee pilot”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-11-24, Crime in China:


Longhua

An investigation into the ads, which were taken down on Wednesday, is underway by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Longhua district, Haikou city in the southern Chinese province of Hainan.

2019 February 15, Laurie Chen, “Breast size unaffected by coconut drink, Chinese maker admits after ads fall flat”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:


Xiuying

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀英.

When gang leader Chen Xinfu was apprehended in Haikou, capital of south China’s island province of Hainan, earlier this month he told his arresting officers: “Guys, take good care of me, for old times’ sake.”
Unlike the hundreds of other mob bosses who have been rounded up in recent months, Chen has a special relationship with the police: before his descent into the criminal underworld, he was deputy head of the public security bureau in the city’s Xiuying district.

2019 April 14, Guo Rui, “China’s war on organised crime, corrupt officials sees 79,000 people detained”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-14, Politics:


Yazhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崖州 (Yázhōu).

The Nanshan Port Public Scientific Research Wharf, the first of its kind in China, is now under construction in Yazhou district in Hainan province’s southernmost city of Sanya, according to industry publication China Shipping News.
Yazhou is home to Hainan’s largest fishing port, China’s closest harbour to the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

2021 November 11, Laura Zhou, “Chinese research wharf being built near largest fishing port on South China Sea”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-11, Diplomacy:


Tianya

In Tianya district, west of the Sanya city centre, a light-rail system is being planned to improve the transport infrastructure of Sanya Bay, and the commercial and tourist districts will be further developed.

2017 July 11, Keith Chan, “Tourism development: Sanya takes holistic approach to enrich offerings”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-07-11, Business:


Jiyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉陽 /吉阳.

Our story takes place in the Qiandao reign period. In Sui’an County of Yanzhou, there lived a rich man named Wang Fu, courtesy name Shizhong, who had passed the local examinations. With his wealth and power, he ran the affairs of the region with an iron hand and held the officials under his influence. A true local despot he was. However, he killed someone and, because he came up against a powerful adversary, was banished to Jiyang District⁶ in the far south.

2000, Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang, transl., compiled by Feng Menglong, Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 689, 777:


Jiyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濟陽 /济阳.


Haitang

The Chinese resort city of Sanya has ordered all tourists to take polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, and those who fail to do so by noon on Tuesday will be slapped with a yellow code restricting their mobility, according to local officials.
The city in the southern province of Hainan logged two asymptomatic Covid-19 cases on Monday. It carried out a round of mass testing and locked down several areas in Haitang district, including a scenic island that received around 2,000 tourists on Monday.

2022 October 4, Xinlu Liang, “Chinese resort city slaps ‘golden week’ tourists with new Covid-19 restrictions”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-04, Politics:


Zell am See

German See refers to the Zeller See (Lake Zell).

A town and district in the state of Salzburg, Austria.


Dongchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 東昌 /东昌 (Dōngchāng).

At the conference, a responsible comrade of the provincial Public Security Department spoke to relay the guidelines of the national antidrug work conference and three typical units—the Dongchang District of Tonghua city, Jian city, and Dunhua city—introduced their experiences in the antidrug work.

1991 November 29 [1991 September 25], Wang Chengyong (3769 2052 0516), “Resolutely and Effectively Crack Down on Criminal Activities Related to Drugs”, in Daily Report: China, number 230, sourced from Changchun JILIN RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 1:


Erdaojiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 二道江.

In Erdaojiang town, Erdaojiang district, Tonghua, Jilin province, Li Feng, a teacher at the Central Primary School, was sentenced to death for harassing and raping nineteen female students.

2005, Chinese Education and Society: A Journal of Translations, volume 38, numbers 4-6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:


Cherchell

From French Cherchell, from Arabic شرشال (Shershel), ultimately from Latin Caesarea. Doublet of Kayseri and Caesarea.

A district of Tipaza, Algeria around the city.


Metro Vancouver

Greater Vancouver
Greater Vancouver#English

A regional district, one of 28 in British Columbia, Canada, which represents the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area.


Dongtou

He said more than 1.6 million tourists visited Dongtou county - which is an island - last year. Most visitors were from Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai, but the number from inland provinces had increased rapidly in recent years.

2009 April 20, “Yours for 15m yuan - a 30-year lease on an uninhabited island”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-24, Latest:

A district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, formerly a county.


Yinhai

On 29 April 2011 the Yinhai District People's Court in Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sentenced Xu Kun to four years in prison and a fine of 200,000 yuan (US$31,427) for "illegal business activity" for operating a parking lot.

2012, “Barriers to Accessing Effective Remedies”, in Standing Their Ground: Thousands Face Violent Eviction in China, Amnesty International, →OCLC, page 33:

A district of Beihai, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Tieshangang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鐵山港 /铁山港.

The next day, the last Sunday of January, Senior Pastor Zhang Yezhong of Beihai Church in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, along with the David Choir members, attended the Sunday worship service at a village gathering site in Xingang^([sic – meaning Xinggang]) Town, Tieshangang District.

2024 February 1, John Zhang, “Churches Across China Care for Believers Before Chinese New Year”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2024-04-16:


Haicheng

In mid-March, just after the passing of the amended CPL and after nine months of detention, he was finally allowed to meet his family, as prosecutors agreed to change his detention location from a police facility to a residential one, which should have been his home, even under the current CPL guidelines. However, he was instead locked up in a flat in Beihai's Haicheng district - the location of the office of the prosecutor in charge of investigating his case.

2012 April 5, “Amendments to criminal law need greater detail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-20:


Alasehir

Alternative form of Alaşehir: a city, municipality, and district of Manisa Province, Turkey.


Niaosong

Kaohsiung's Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) said Friday that it will fine and pursue criminal charges against the renter of an industrial warehouse for allegedly ignoring demands to clean up an ethyl acrylate spill that spread an acrid odor over the city's Niaosong District the previous day.

2020 September 18, Hung Hsueh-kang, Hou Wen-ting, Matthew Mazzetta, “Kaohsiung authorities pledge firm response to chemical spill”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2020-10-25, Society:


Huancui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 環翠 /环翠.

The food safety administration in Weihai’s Huancui district said it had sent samples of the cooking oil collected from the school for testing and was waiting for the results.

2018 November 10, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese school kitchen used filthy oil to cook children’s meals, parents say”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-11-10, People & Culture:


Wendeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 文登 (Wéndēng).

Aung Myat Min’s brother, who requested anonymity because he is still working in Wendeng district, told RFA that most factories in Weihai are working alongside the police and are likely holding about 300 Myanmar migrants who are being used as unpaid laborers.

2021 November 17, Eugene Whong, “China detains at least 400 Myanmar migrants for more than a year”, in Khin Maung Nyane, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2021-11-17:


Selcuk

Alternative spelling of Selçuk: A town, municipality, and district of İzmir Province, Turkey, near the ruins of ancient Ephesus.


Central Okanagan

A regional district in southern British Columbia, Canada, with its headquarters in the city of Kelowna.


Kootenay Boundary

A regional district in southern British Columbia, Canada, bordering onto the United States.


Comox Valley

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

A region and regional district (Comox Valley Regional District) on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


Hunza

A district in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.


Chandauli

A town, nagar panchayat, and district of Uttar Pradesh, India.


Mainz-Bingen

Unadapted borrowing from German Mainz-Bingen.

ubor

A district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Ouhai

In Ouhai County of Zhejiang Province, three-fourths of the industrial output comes from companies owned by shareholders, the official New China News Agency has reported.

1988 December 5, Nicholas D. Kristof, “China, Seeking More Efficiency, Looks to a Stock Market System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Section A, page 1:


Longwan

The Longwan district prosecutor in the coastal city of Wenzhou said on its official microblog that Wenzhou Guoding Investment had set up a virtual platform for futures trading, conducting 3.2 billion yuan ($515.4 million) of illegal business.

2015 July 31, Adam Jourdan, Brenda Goh, SHANGHAI newsroom, “China arrests seven in 1:100 leveraged futures scam”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-01-11:


Ortenaukreis

Unadapted borrowing from German Ortenaukreis.


Arzew

From irregular French romanization of Arabic أرزيو (“Arzew, Bethioua”), presumably ultimately from Latin Arsenaria, an ancient settlement 3 Roman miles inland from the sea near Bethioua. The name was applied to the present location under French rule.

A district of Oran Province, Algeria, around the city.


Chengguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城關 /城关 (Chéngguān).

People rest in the shade beneath a government propaganda banner in Chinese and Tibetan near a neighborhood Tibetan Buddhist shrine in the Chengguan district of Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as seen during a rare government-led tour of the region for foreign journalists, Thursday June 3, 2021.

2024 May 21, “Report says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans”, in AP News, sourced from TAIPEI, Taiwan, archived from the original on 2024-05-23, World News:

A district of Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, China.


Dagzê

Jiang Zaiping, the vice chief of the Public Security Bureau in Lhasa, said investigators have arrested the suspects responsible for arson attacks on three shops - including the clothing outlet where five young women were burned to death - and one in nearby Dagze county, the Tibet Daily newspaper reported Monday.

[2008 March 31, Jim Yardley, “Olympic torch begins uncertain journey from Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-19, Asia Pacific:


Doilungdêqên

From Tibetan སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན (stod lung bde chen).

bor

སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན

(ii) Dolungdeqen-Lhunzhub Subregion[…]
The northern belt runs from the southeast of Nam Co—Degen, east through Doilungdeqen County, passing south of Nam Co to Sangba; the middle and southern belts lie north and south of the Cretaceous red bed basin north of Lhasa.

[1988, Yin Jixiang, Xu Juntao, Liu Chengjie, Li Huan, “The Tibetan plateau: regional stratigraphic context and previous work”, in The Geological Evolution of Tibet: Report of the 1985 Royal Society-Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, London: The Royal Society, sourced from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, volume 327 (no. 1594), pages 1–413, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

The area east of the Jokhang, with a short radius around the mosque, has retained a strong Muslim atmosphere. The rest is Chinese. In the west, an ugly industrial zone sprawls from Doilungdêqên past the Norbulinka to the Potala.

1992 February, Robert Strauss, “Lhasa”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2:


Chishminsky

Borrowed from Russian Чишми́нский (Čišmínskij).


Liangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涼州 /凉州 (Liángzhōu).

A district of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Nam Đàn

A district of eastern Nghệ An Province, Vietnam.


Gangkou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 港口 (Gǎngkǒu).

A district of Fangchenggang, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Huanggu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 皇姑 (Huánggū).

Consider the story of one lowly tax bureau in the district of Huanggu, one of the ten districts in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province in northeast China. In 1995, the Huanggu GS branch bureau had jurisdiction over a taxpayer population that included close to 8,000 private firms.

2022, Wei Cui, The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:

A district of Shenyang, Liaoning, China.


Louxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 婁星 /娄星.


Jiaojiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 椒江.

Jiaojiang District is on the central coast of Zhejiang Province and historically was called Haimen. In 1981 the county-level Jiaojiang Municipality was set up, which was the first county-level city. In 1994 Taizhou changed the prefecture into a municipality, and Jiaojiang became the district of Taizhou, where the Taizhou Municipal People’s Government was located. The whole district had a rural population of 340,000 and 275 administrative villages.

2011, Liu Jianfei [刘建飞], “Taking the Chance of Reform: New Achievements of China's Construction of Democratic Politics”, in Democracy and China [民主中国与世界], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:


Lumphat

A district of Ratanakiri province, Cambodia.


Jalainur

Ultimately from Mongolian Далай нуур (Dalaj nuur, “the Hulun Lake”), from далай (dalaj) and нуур (nuur, “lake”).

der

A district of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Nanfen

Nanfen open pit iron mine, located in Nanfen district of the Liaoning province, China, is approximately 500m deep. It is one of the largest open-pit metal mines in China.

2013 September 27, “Top 10 deep open-pit mines”, in Mining Technology, archived from the original on 2013-10-03, Features:


Mingshan

Kandeng Mountain is located 20 km southwest of the Pujiang County seat, 6 km from the salt wells in Baiyun Township on the border of Mingshan County in Ya’an City.

2006, Long Teng [龙腾], “Cliffside Carvings Near Salt Wells in Pujiang County [蒲江县盐井附近摩崖造像考察]”, in Shuicheng Li [李水城], Lothar von Falkenhausen, editors, Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies [中国盐业考古 : 长江上游古代盐业与景观考古的初步研究], volume 1, China Science Publishing & Media, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157:

看灯山,在蒲江县西南20公里,离白云乡盐井6公里,与雅安市名山县交界,[…]


Xihu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西湖 (Xī Hú).


Xihu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溪湖 (Xīhú).

For the small factories, the cleanup of Benxi caused economic hardship including closure or production restrictions. The Xihu District EPB director, Mrs. Gao, talked about their predicament:[…]

2006, Liu Yu, Pan Wei, Shen Mingming, Song Guojun, Vivian Bertrand, Mary Child, Judith Shapiro, “The Politics and Ethics of Going Green in China: Air Pollution Control in Benxi City and Wetland Preservation in the Sanjiang Plain”, in Joanne Bauer, editor, Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:


Zafarobod

Borrowed from Tajik Зафаробод (Zafarobod).


Haizhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 海州 (Hǎizhōu).

In December 1973, another Han tomb with a wooden vault was excavated at Nanmen 南门 Brigade, Wangtuan 王疃 Village, Haizhou District. Wangtuan Village is about 2.5 km southeast of Haizhou and the Han tomb is situated on the east slope of the Jiaoshan 礁山 Hill.

1985, Nan Po [南波], “Shiqi Yao's Tomb of the Western Han Dynasty at Haizhou, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province [江苏连云港市海州西汉侍其繇墓]”, in Albert E. Dien, Jeffrey K. Riegel, Nancy T. Price, editors, Chinese Archaeological Abstracts. 3, Eastern Zhou to Han, volume 10, Los Angeles, sourced from Kaogu 1975.3: 169-177, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1150, column 1:

江苏连云港市海州西汉侍其繇墓

On November 6, 1948, 300,000 Communist troops of the East China Field Army attacked the Nationalist Seventh Army near Haizhou District, Lianyungang, and the long-awaited Huai-Hai Campaign began.

2012, Kevin Tian Yang, “Huai-Hai Campaign”, in Xiaobing Li, editor, China at War, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173, column 2:

Only one other preserved “wet” corpse of more than 2,000 years is known. It is from a Former Han tomb found by accident while digging a road in 2002 at Shuanglong village 雙龍村, Haizhou district 海州区, Lianyungang 連雲港, Jiangsu province.

2012, Endymion Wilkinson, “Qin-Han [秦漢]”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, 3rd revised edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 724, column 2:

A district of Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China.


Waidhofen an der Thaya

An administrative district of Lower Austria, Austria.

Waidhofen an der Thaya

administrative district in Lower Austria, Austria


Tambopata

A province and district therein, in Madre de Dios department, Peru.


Jiangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 江州.

A district of Chongzuo, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Punakha

Borrowed from Dzongkha སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ (spu na kha).

A district and former capital city of Bhutan.


Guangyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 廣陽 /广阳 (Guǎngyáng).


Anci

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 安次 (Āncì).


Hoàng Su Phì

A rural district of Hà Giang Province, Vietnam.


Okanagan-Similkameen

A regional district in southern British Columbia, Canada, bordering onto the state of Washington in the United States.


Đại Lộc

A district of Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam.


Yushui

According to China’s electoral law, only the ‘official representative candidates’ are legal candidates for the county and village elections, being nominated and recommended by the political parties, civil organizations and the electorate. Thus, ‘independent’ candidates are considered illegal. For instance, a female xiagang worker in Jiangxi Province, Liu Ping, was placed under tight police surveillance after she declared her intention to stand in Xinyu City’s Yushui District elections.

2013, Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, “Evolving Agencies amid Rapid Social Change: Political Leadership and State-Civil Society Relations in China”, in James Rajasekar, Loo-See Beh, editors, Culture and Gender in Leadership: Perspectives from the Middle East and Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91:


Sambalpur

Borrowed from Odia ସମ୍ବଲପୁର (sambalapura).


Shuangxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙溪 (Shuāngxī).

Shuanghsi (alternative)
Shuangsi (alternative)


Shiding

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石碇 (Shídìng).

Shihding (alternative)
Shihting (alternative)


Cariboo

A regional district (Cariboo Regional District) in the Central Interior of British Columbia.


Squamish-Lillooet

A regional district in the south-west of British Columbia, Canada, which includes the named places.


North Coast

A regional district (North Coast Regional District) on the coast of British Columbia, Canada.


Kitimat-Stikine

A regional district in north-west British Columbia, Canada.


Rheintal

A district (Wahlkreis) in St. Gallen canton, Switzerland.


Xigu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西固 (Xīgù).


Lorne

en-proper-noun

Lorne (countable and uncountable, plural Lornes)

A district of the county of Restigouche, New Brunswick, Canada.

A number of places in Scotland, United Kingdom:

A former province, a district of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom.


Surendranagar

Borrowed from Gujarati સુરેન્દ્રનગર (surendranagar).

bor+

સુરેન્દ્રનગર


Wulingyuan

A district of Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.


Kathu

A district of Phuket Province, Thailand.


Mueang Phuket

Borrowed from Thai เมืองภูเก็ต (mʉʉang-puu-gèt).


Hua Hin

Prachuap Khiri Khan
Prachuap Khiri Khan#English

A coastal town, resort, and district in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand.


Sabak Bernam

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Sabak Bernam.


Su-ngai Padi

From Thai สุไหงปาดี (sù-ngǎi-bpaa-dii), from Malay Sungai Padi (literally “River of Rice Plants”).

der

Su-ngai Padi (a district of Narathiwat Province, Thailand).


Bannang Sata

From Thai บันนังสตา (ban-nang-sà-dtaa), from Malay Bendang Setar (literally “Rice Field of Gandaria”).

Bannang Sata (town)
Bannang Sata district

Bannang Sata (a district of Yala Province, Thailand).


Kubang Pasu

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kubang Pasu.


Xinxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新興 /新兴 (Xīnxīng).

A district of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China.


Yizhou

A district of Hami, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

A district of Hechi, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Liuzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 六枝 (Liùzhī).

Amidst thick mist, we drove with difficulty along a muddy mountain road to find the Longga Village at its end. In this remote area of Liuzhi Special District in Guizhou Province, live a branch of he Miao people noted for their ancient and mysterious customs — the Long-horn Miaos.

2000 January, Zhang Mingji, “Trip to a Garden of Eden”, in China Tourism, number 234, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76, column 1:

A special district of Liupanshui, Guizhou, China.


Shuicheng

A district of Liupanshui, Guizhou, China.


Kannauj

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ken-der.
Sanskrit कन्य (kanya)
Sanskrit कुब्ज (kubja)
Sanskrit कन्यकुब्ज (kanyakubja)
Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀚 (kaṇṇaüjja)
Hindi कन्नौज (kannauj)bor.
English Kannauj
Borrowed from Hindi कन्नौज (kannauj).

etymon

Kanauj (alternative)
Kannoj (alternative)
Cannodge (alternative)

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


Central District

Central District (Botswana)
Central District (Israel)

One of the six administrative districts of Israel.


Fatehabad

A number of places in India:
A town and district in Haryana.


Sissach

A municipality and district in Basel-Landschaft canton, Switzerland.


Qinghemen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清河門 /清河门.


Xinqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新邱.


Bayi

A district of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Lingui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 臨桂 /临桂 (Línguì).

A district of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Huarong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華容 /华容 (Huáróng).


Sheikhupura

A city and district of Punjab, Pakistan.


Kongtong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崆峒 (Kōngtóng).


Qingshanhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 青山湖.


Qingyunpu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 青雲譜 /青云谱.


Donghu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 東湖 /东湖.


Honggutan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 紅谷灘 /红谷滩.


Xinjian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新建 (Xīnjiàn).


Lobata

São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe#English

An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.


Central Kootenay

A regional district in south-east British Columbia, Canada.


Tirupati

Borrowed from Telugu తిరుపతి (tirupati).

A city and district of Andhra Pradesh, India, famous for its religious and cultural heritage and historic temples.


Kanpur Dehat

A district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Akbarpur.


Kasganj

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


Kaushambi

A district of Prayagraj division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Manjhanpur.


Kushinagar

A district of Gorakhpur division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Padrauna.


Lakhimpur Kheri

A district of Lucknow division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Lakhimpur.


Maharajganj

A town and district of Gorakhpur division, Uttar Pradesh, India.


Mahoba

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


Mainpuri

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


Pilibhit

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


Pratapgarh

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


Raebareli

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


Rampur

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


Sant Kabir Nagar

A district of Basti division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Khalilabad.


Bhadohi

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


Sambhal

A district of Moradabad division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Bahjoi.


Shamli

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


Shravasti

A district of Devipatan division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Bhinga.


Siddharthnagar

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


Sonbhadra

A district of Mirzapur division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Robertsganj.


Sultanpur

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


Ambedkar Nagar

A district of Ayodhya division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Akbarpur.


Amethi

A district of Ayodhya division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Gauriganj.


Amroha

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


Auraiya

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


Baghpat

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


Bahraich

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


Ballia

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


Balrampur

A town and district of Devipatan division, Uttar Pradesh, India.


Bijnor

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


Deoria

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


Etah

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


Fatehpur

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


Firozabad

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


Gautam Buddha Nagar

A district of Meerut division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Greater Noida.


Ghazipur

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


Jalaun

A district of Jhansi division, Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Orai.


Luqiao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 路橋 /路桥.


Huangyan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃巖 /黄岩 (Huángyán).


Chengxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城廂 /城厢 (Chéngxiāng).


Columbia-Shuswap

A regional district in south-east British Columbia, Canada, that borders onto Alberta.


Veveyse

A district of Fribourg canton, Switzerland.


Xiangshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 香山 (Xiāngshān).


Sanxia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三峽 (Sānxiá).

Sanhsia (alternative)
Sansia (alternative)

The festival is organized on four levels. The highest of these includes all the inhabitants of the southern Taibei Basin who are of Anxi origin: everyone in Sanxia township; people living in those parts of Shulin township that are closest to, and formally part of, the economic as well as the ritual hinterland of Sanxia, including all of Shitouxi, Shanzijiao, and Pengcuo; all of Yingge township; and that area known as Zhongzhuang, which is actually located in Taoyuan County, but was settled by residents of the Sanxia and Yingge areas. The ritual center for this level of organization is the Tiong-hok Giam, an imposing temple in the heart of Sanxia town that houses fifty or sixty carved wooden images of the black-faced deity Co-su Kong.

1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 184, 217:


Yingge

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶯歌 (Yīnggē).

There is also another model for the organization of conflict in Chinese society, the factional model. Gallin, in one of the first analytical studies of such factionalism, shows how the breakdown of the traditional lineage-based social order of a rural township in central Taiwan led to the formation of township-wide political factions, based on personal loyalties to patron-leaders (Gallin 1966b). These factions contested elections to political office and engaged in other disputes, reaching into and dividing individual villages. Similar factions permeate the political life of Yingge township, close to Sanxia. Indeed one cannot talk to a man from Yingge for more than a few minutes without hearing stories of the factions, their disputes, and their relative success in the latest elections.

1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 140, 218:

I LIVED IN TAIWAN for two years, one of which was spent in the town of Yingge. Yingge is small, but has a large number of factories — over 600, or about one for every ten families.

1984 March 21, Richard Stites, “Huis and Means in Taiwan”, in CoEvolution Quarterly, number 41, Sausalito, Cali.: POINT, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

Huang imports specialized clay and hires painters to do patterns on the white bowls.
His shop in Yingge, a Taipei suburb known for ceramics production, aims to exhibit at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai in May. After that he will set a price for the larger bowls and offer it for sale in China.

2010 March 8, Christine Lu, Ben Tai, Ralph Jennings, “Fragile: Taiwan potter produces razor-thin bowls”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-02-26, Lifestyle:

C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.

2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120, column 1:

Among the six winning NT$10 million receipts, one was issued for a drink purchase worth NT$54 sold by a Simple Mart supermarket on Yingtao Road in New Taipei's Yingge District.

2025 January 23, Chang Ai, Ko Lin, “Receipt lottery winners urged to claim cash by March 5”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2025-01-23, Society:


Sanchong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三重 (Sānchóng).

In 1978 he had become a partner in a small factory in the Taibei industrial suburb of Sanchong, though he continued to live at home, which by that time was a separate house across the street from the family compound.

1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 166, 217:


Zhonghe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中和 (Zhōnghé).


Haizhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 海珠 (Hǎizhū).

A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.


Huiyang

A district of Huizhou, Guangdong, China.


Guangming

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 光明 (Guāngmíng).

A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.


Zhangqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 章丘 (Zhāngqiū).


Fumian

A district of Yulin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Cowichan Valley

A region and regional district in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


North Okanagan

A regional district in southern British Columbia, Canada. Seat: Coldstream.


Capital Regional District

the Capital Regional District (canonical)

A regional district in the south of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


Cieding

From Mandarin 茄萣 (Qiédìng) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Ciédìng.

Chiehting (alternative)
Qieding (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

A greater white-fronted goose is seen flying over wetlands in Kaohsiung's Cieding District in this recent photo. Sighting of the migratory bird has been rare in Taiwan, which recorded a brief stay of five geese of this species last year.

2021 November 4, “Rare guest”, in Focus Taiwan, sourced from Kaohsiung City Public Works Bureau, archived from the original on 2021-11-04, Photo of the Day:

The Kaohsiung Department of Health on Sunday said it had received a report of a suspected dengue case, a woman in her 60s, who lives in the Kaohsiung’s Cieding District (茄萣), but works in Tainan’s East District (東區).

2023 June 27, Lee I-chia, “Kaohsiung reports first dengue case of the year”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-26, Taiwan News, page 3:


Xinying

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新營 (Xīnyíng).

Hsinying (alternative)
Sinying (alternative)


Houbi

The firewood consists of bamboo charcoal produced in Tainan's Longci District, while the rice is championship quality from Houbi and Liujia districts.

2019 November 15, Chang Jung-hsiang, Elizabeth Hsu, “Tainan to give top model 12 products as wedding gifts”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2019-11-15:

The firewood consists of bamboo charcoal produced in Tainan’s Longci District (龍崎), while the rice is of championship quality from the Houbi (後壁) and Lioujia (六甲) districts.

2019 November 16, “Tainan to present 12 dowry gifts to Lin Chi-ling, groom”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-09, Taiwan News, page 2:


Jiangjun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 將軍 (Jiāngjūn).

Chiangchun (alternative)
Jiangjyun (alternative)


Quangang

A district of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.


Qingshui

From Chinese 清水 (Qīngshuǐ, “clear, fresh water”)


Rasina

A river and district in south-central Serbia.


East Godavari

A district of Coastal Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, India.


Taobei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洮北.


North District

One of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, China.


Tiruchi

(India, informal) Tiruchirappalli (a district of Tamil Nadu, India).


Arghakhanchi

Borrowed from Nepali अर्घाखाँची (arghākhā̃cī).


Pulandian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普蘭店 /普兰店 (Pǔlándiàn).


Ganjingzi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘井子.


Xigang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西崗 /西岗.


Aihui

A district of Heihe, Heilongjiang, China.


Shanhaiguan

A district of Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.


Astore

A city and district of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.


Gonten

Appenzell Innerrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden#English

A district and village in Appenzell Innerrhoden canton, Switzerland.


Kreuzlingen

A town, municipality, and district in Thurgau canton, Switzerland; the town is on the Bodensee/Lake Constance and borders onto Konstanz in Germany.


Liujiang

A district of Liuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Qiezihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 茄子河.

A district of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China.


Tianhe

A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.


Água Grande

An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.


Tianxin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天心 (tiānxīn).


Wuming

A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Bachok

Borrowed from Malay Bachok, from Thai บ้านจาก (Bâan Jàak, literally “Village of Nipa Palms”) via Pattani Malay [Term?].

der

Bachok (a district of Kelantan, Malaysia).