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Nangang

Syllables: Nan·gang

Nangang proper noun: a district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

Proper noun (1)

Nangang

  1. A district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
    • Embezzler and swindler (Hsiung I-wen), a clerk at the foundry of the (Yungchiu) production brigade, (Yuehchin) [translating 躍進 /跃进] commune, (Nankang) district, Harbin Municipality, from March 1963 to January 1970 swindled 11,000 yuan in cash from 22 units and more than 20 persons in the name of...[1968 November 9 [1968 November 7], “Low-Level Heilungkiang Cadres Sentenced for Corruption”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...
    • A woman in Harbin’s Nangang district has warned the public that her pet Tibetan mastiff is still at large and likely to be hungry after running off three days ago, the Modern Evening Times reports. The woman has offered a 10,000 yuan reward for help in finding the dog, which went missing while she...2014 December 29, “Around the nation: world's largest exhibition centre in Shanghai near completion”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2014, China...

Proper noun (2)

Nangang

  1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several...1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “T’AI-PEI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2
    • The bus belonged to the private Yongli Keyun transit company and had been turning off the No. 5 freeway onto the No. 3 freeway in the eastern Taipei district of Nangang when it crashed at about 9 p.m.2017 February 13, “Speed a possible factor in Taiwan bus crash that killed 32”, in AP News, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2022

Forms of Nangang

alternative formNankang
alternative formNanKang
alternative formNan-kang
alternative formNan-chiang

Origin of Nangang

From Mandarin 南崗 /南岗.

From Mandarin 南港 (Nángǎng).

Questions about Nangang

What does Nangang mean?
Nangang means a district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
What part of speech is Nangang?
Nangang is a proper noun.

Words near Nangang in the dictionary

  1. Nangalisan
  2. Nangalisan East
  3. Nangalisan West
  4. Nangan
  5. Nangana
  6. Nangang
  7. Nangarhar
  8. nangas
  9. nangca
  10. Nangcamotian
  11. nangcas

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