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Pukou

Syllables: Pu·kou

Pukou proper noun: a district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Proper noun

Pukou

  1. A district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
    • From the point of view of communication facilities, Pukou appeared to be a suitable site, but was found rather too accessible and therefore objectionable from the strategic viewpoint.[...]
    • Moreover, the site is only about 50 kilometers by water from Pukou, which renders the transport of coal supplies fairly easy. Coal brought from the north by the Tientsin-Pukou Railway could be quickly transhipped to the steelworks from Pukou, and supplies from Pinghsiang, carried from Wuchang (via...
    • The other possible site for the steelworks, Hsiehchiatien, lies in the district of Luho on the northern bank of the Yangtze, and is 20 kilometers from Pukou. The land between Pukou and Hsiehchiatien is very low, but the proposed site is surrounded by hills, and thus secure from the danger of being...1934 October, “State Plants for Industrial Development in China”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXX, number 10, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 441, column 2

Forms of Pukou

alternative formP'u-k'ou

Origin of Pukou

From Mandarin 浦口 (Pǔkǒu).

Questions about Pukou

What does Pukou mean?
Pukou means a district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
What part of speech is Pukou?
Pukou is a proper noun.

Words near Pukou in the dictionary

  1. pukka sahibs
  2. pukkah
  3. pukkaness
  4. Pukkumerian
  5. Pukkumerians
  6. Pukou
  7. PUKs
  8. puku
  9. pukus
  10. Pukwei
  11. pukwudgie

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