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Nanchong

Syllables: Nan·chong

Nanchong proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

Nanchong

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
    • Her mother had recently had minor surgery, so Qin decided it was a good time to leave the golf company and move back to her hometown of Nanchong, a city in Sichuan province some 200 km (125 miles) east of Chengdu.2017 October 17, John Ruwitch, Anita Li, “Cash and coffee: a young woman's path in a changing China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 May 2022, Regulatory News

Forms of Nanchong

alternative formNan-ch'ung

Origin of Nanchong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南充 (Nánchōng).

Questions about Nanchong

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

Words near Nanchong in the dictionary

  1. Nanchang
  2. nanchangmycin
  3. Nancheng
  4. Nanching
  5. nanchon
  6. Nanchong
  7. nanchons
  8. Nanchuan
  9. nancies
  10. nancified
  11. nancing

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