Yangjiang
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Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽江/阳江 (Yángjiāng).
Proper noun[edit]
Yangjiang
- A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China.
- 2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:
- The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.
Synonyms[edit]
- Yeungkong (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)
Translations[edit]
prefecture-level city in Guangdong
Further reading[edit]
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 2
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