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Cangzhou

Syllables: Cang·zhou

Cangzhou proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.

Proper noun

Cangzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
    • Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing, is China’s top steel-producing province. Steel plants play a big role in air and water pollution, but the city of Cangzhou’s answer to the problem is an anti-smoking campaign.
    • A Hebei official newspaper, Yanzhao Dushi Bao, reported in July that local officials in Cangzhou held a public meeting pledging their commitment to the anti-smoking cause. With smoke billowing from the chimneys of factories in the distance, officials promoted the slogan: “Curbing air pollution...2013 October 29, Yu Hua, “Jokes, Lies and Pollution in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2013, Opinion

Origin of Cangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滄州 /沧州 (Cāngzhōu).

Questions about Cangzhou

What does Cangzhou mean?
Cangzhou means a prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
What part of speech is Cangzhou?
Cangzhou is a proper noun.

Words near Cangzhou in the dictionary

  1. cangrelor
  2. cangs
  3. cangue
  4. cangues
  5. Cangxi
  6. Cangzhou
  7. Canham
  8. Canhameira
  9. Canhams
  10. canhouse
  11. canhouses

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