Nanhai

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See also: nánhái, Nánhǎi, and Nán Hǎi

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From Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi).

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Nanhai

  1. A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
    • 1980 July 6, “Poster attack”, in Free China Weekly[1], volume XXI, number 26, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
      A big poster recently appeared in Nanhai County of Kwangtung Province condemning the unpardonable crimes committed by Mao Tse-tung during his notorious lifetime, according to an intelligence source from behind the Iron Curtain.
      Entitled "Our debt of blood must be repaid in kind by pro-Mao reptiles," the poster was put on a "revolutionary martyrs' shrine" at Tali Park in Nanhai County on May 16.
    • 2021 October 4, Iris Ouyang, “China’s local authorities take a hard look at Evergrande’s projects to ring fence any collapse from hurting their jurisdictions”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 October 2021, Business:
      The Nanhai district of the Guangdong provincial city of Foshan in the GBA has ordered those Evergrande projects that are still under construction to be taken off the list as approved collaterals for mortgages and other loans.
  2. A town in Songzi, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
  3. A lake in Zhongnanhai, Xicheng district, Beijing, China.
    • [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[3], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1:
      Grouped around Chung Hai (Middle lake) and Nan Hai (South lake), just west of the Palace museum, are the government buildings of the Chinese Communist regime.]

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