Nanning

Proper noun

Nanning

1. A prefecture-level city, the capital of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
   • Our Authors ſay there are no Elephants in China, which muſt be underſtood of the Provinces they knew, where, in truth, there are none. Father Martini writes, that they begin to be met with at Nanning, in the Province of Quangli, where the Inhabitants uſe them for War and for Carriage. Some there...1733, Eusebius Renaudot, transl., Ancient Accounts of India and China, London, →OCLC, page 61
   • The French were once so sure of getting a railway concession from their Langson branch into Lungchow that they built a big stone station—now the French consulate—and a stone slide not unlike the steeper levees along the Mississippi, down which French goods were to be slid into the boats that were...1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, page 354

   Synonyms:

   Yungning