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Gaocun

Syllables: Gao·cun

Gaocun proper noun: a town in Wuqing district, Tianjin, China, formerly a township.

Proper noun

Gaocun

  1. A town in Wuqing district, Tianjin, China, formerly a township.
    • In 1991-1992, the Archaeology Section, Tianjin Municipal Museum of History, carried out survey and trial excavation at the Lancheng site to the south of Lancheng village in Gaocun township, Wuqing county, Tianjin, which resulted in the revelation of an ash-pit, an ash-trench and two wells.2001, 考古杂志, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 807
    • The first simultaneous vertical distribution measurements using aircraft and tethered balloon were conducted in Gaocun (a rural site between Beijing and Tianjin) on June 17th.2021 June 15, Zhao Ruojie et al., “Aircraft-based observation of gaseous pollutants in the lower troposphere over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region”, in Science of The Total Environment, volume 773...
  2. A village in Gaocun, Wuqing district, Tianjin, China.

Forms of Gaocun

alternative formKao-ts’un

Origin of Gaocun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高村 (Gāocūn).

Questions about Gaocun

What does Gaocun mean?
Gaocun means a town in Wuqing district, Tianjin, China, formerly a township.
What part of speech is Gaocun?
Gaocun is a proper noun.

Words near Gaocun in the dictionary

  1. gao
  2. gao dim
  3. gao lak
  4. gao luk
  5. Gaocheng
  6. Gaocun
  7. Gaodeng
  8. Gaogouli
  9. gaohu
  10. gaohus
  11. gaokao

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