Gong'an

See also: gongan

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization): Kungan
• (from Wade–Giles) Kung-an

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 公安 (Gōng'ān).

Proper noun

Gong'an

1. A county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • 1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions‎^[1], Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:

     Gong’an County has over 3,000 Christians who hope to build a church in the county town to hold 700 people.

   • [2009 May 5, Beijing newsroom, “China cigarette order goes up in smoke”, in Ben Blanchard, Miral Fahmy, editors, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 08 April 2017, Lifestyle:

     Functionaries in Gongan county in rural Hubei province had been ordered to smoke at least 23,000 packs of cigarettes a year, worth nearly 4 million yuan ($586,700), to cushion government finances, according to regional media reports.]

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公安 (zh) (Gōng'ān)

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Anagrams

• Gagnon, ongang