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Dongfang

Syllables: Dong·fang

Dongfang proper noun: a sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.

Proper noun

Dongfang

  1. A sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.
    • Comrade (Lin Wang-ching), former secretary of the control committee of the Hainan Regional CCP Committee, died in Tungfang County on 12 July 1967 as a result of persecution by the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Lin Piao and the gang of four. A memorial service was held for him in Haikow...[1978 December 19 [1978 December 15], “Hainan Holds Memorial Service for Persecuted Local Official”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 244, Foreign Broadcast Information...
    • The company said the project would be located in Dongfang in its home island province of Hainan, in southern China, and would produce 20,000 tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide, a chemical favoured in lithium-rich EV batteries.2021 August 23, Tom Daly, “Chinese iron ore miner to invest $164 million in lithium production”, in David Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021, COMMODITIES

Origin of Dongfang

From Mandarin 東方 /东方 (Dōngfāng).

Questions about Dongfang

What does Dongfang mean?
Dongfang means a sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.
What part of speech is Dongfang?
Dongfang is a proper noun.

Words near Dongfang in the dictionary

  1. donged
  2. Dongen
  3. donger
  4. Dongeradeel
  5. dongers
  6. Dongfang
  7. Dongfeng
  8. Donggang
  9. Donggoan
  10. Dongguan
  11. Donggyeongi

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