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Dongli

Syllables: Dong·li

Dongli proper noun: a district of Tianjin, China.

Proper noun

Dongli

  1. A district of Tianjin, China.
    • Since September of this year (Zhang Zhendong), worker at a certain workshop under the Tianjin Woolen Mill, took advantage of his working post and ganged up with three people from Dongli district, including (Sun Baokui), to steal, on three occasions, more than 380 kg of wool delivered by Australia...1993 November 10 [1993 November 9], “Tianjin Reports on Struggle Against Crime”, in Daily Report: China, number 93-216, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Tianjin People's Radio...
    • 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...

Origin of Dongli

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

Questions about Dongli

What does Dongli mean?
Dongli means a district of Tianjin, China.
What part of speech is Dongli?
Dongli is a proper noun.

Words near Dongli in the dictionary

  1. Dongjyu
  2. dongle
  3. Donglegate
  4. dongles
  5. dongless
  6. Dongli
  7. Dongliao
  8. Dongning
  9. dongnoside
  10. Dongola
  11. Dongola kid

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