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Poyang

Syllables: Po·yang

Poyang proper noun: a lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, the country's largest freshwater lake.

Proper noun

Poyang

  1. A lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, the country's largest freshwater lake.
    • Long celebrated as China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang reaches more than three times the expanse of Los Angeles in the summer wet season. It is home to the rare Yangtze finless porpoise, and its mud flats are the primary winter feeding grounds for thousands of birds that fly south each autumn...
    • Now it is Poyang itself that is at risk.2016 December 28, Mike Ives, “As China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Shrinks, Solution Faces Criticism”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
  2. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.

Forms of Poyang

alternative formPo-yang
alternative formP'o-yang

Origin of Poyang

From Mandarin 鄱陽 /鄱阳 (Póyáng).

Questions about Poyang

What does Poyang mean?
Poyang means a lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, the country's largest freshwater lake.
What part of speech is Poyang?
Poyang is a proper noun.

Words near Poyang in the dictionary

  1. poxy
  2. poy
  3. Poyais
  4. Poyaisian
  5. Poyaisians
  6. Poyang
  7. poyarkovite
  8. Poyer
  9. Poyers
  10. Poyle
  11. Poylish

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