Huai'an
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Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淮安 (Huái'ān).
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Huai'an
- A prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
- 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China] (China Knowledge Series)[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 103:
- In 486 B.C., King Fu Chai of Wu, in an attempt to seek supremacy in the north, constructed the Han Canal from Jiangdu to Huai'an, both in modern Jiangsu Province, so that the Huaihe River was linked with the Changjiang River.
- [2021 August 2, Ryan Woo, “China's Wuhan to test all 12 million residents as Delta variant spreads”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 04 August 2021, China[3]:
- The new cases in Wuhan, along with infections in the nearby cities of Jingzhou and Huanggang since Saturday, were linked to cases in the city of Huaian in Jiangsu province, said Li Yang, vice director of the Hubei province disease control centre.]
Translations[edit]
a prefecture-level city in eastern China
Further reading[edit]
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huai'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1320, column 2
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