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Zhoukou

Syllables: Zhou·kou

Zhoukou proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Proper noun

Zhoukou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
    • Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.[1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 7
    • In order to solve the problem in Fukou County, the Honan provincial and Choukou prefectural CCP committees in May this year sent a joint work group to the country.[1978 September 19 [1978 September 13], “The Importance of Reforming Leading Bodies as Seen From the Fukou Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 182, Foreign Broadcast...

Origin of Zhoukou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).

Questions about Zhoukou

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

Words near Zhoukou in the dictionary

  1. Zhora
  2. zhos
  3. Zhoshi
  4. zhou
  5. zhoug
  6. Zhoukou
  7. Zhoukoudian
  8. Zhoushan
  9. Zhouzhi
  10. Zhovkva
  11. Zhovti Vody

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