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Bengbu

Syllables: Beng·buUS/ˈbɛŋbu/

Bengbu proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.

Proper noun

Bengbu

  1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
    • The 2nd Army Group was to the west along the railroad to Kaifeng, while the 16th Army Group was situated to the south along the rail line to Pengpu (Peng-pu) on the Huai River.[…]
      Jiang’s last effort was to commit his Sixth Army from Pengpu, but its advance ground to a halt under fierce PLA...[2011, “Battle of Huaihai”, in Battles that Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 558–559
    • Individuals with deposits of up to 100,000 yuan ($14,787) will be repaid, the Henan branch of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) and the provincial financial bureau said in a joint statement.
      Authorities in Anhui's Bengbu city made a similar statement, saying it will...2022 July 21, Ryan Woo, Samuel Shen, “China to repay more depositors to defuse rural bank scandal”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, Simon Cameron-Moore, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on...
    Synonyms:
    Bangfu, Pangfu, Pang-fou, Pang-pu

Synonyms of Bengbu

Forms of Bengbu

alternative formPengpu
alternative formPeng-pu

Origin of Bengbu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蚌埠 (Bèngbù).

Questions about Bengbu

What does Bengbu mean?
Bengbu means a prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
What part of speech is Bengbu?
Bengbu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Bengbu?
Bengbu is pronounced /ˈbɛŋbu/ (US).

Words near Bengbu in the dictionary

  1. Bengaluru North
  2. Bengaluru South
  3. Bengaluru Urban
  4. bengamide
  5. bengamides
  6. Bengbu
  7. Bengcag
  8. Benge
  9. Bengel
  10. Bengelian
  11. Bengels

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