Fangchenggang

See also: Fángchénggǎng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 防城港 (Fángchénggǎng).

Proper noun

Fangchenggang

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
   • 2008 September 3, “China launches 30 mln-tn steel project in Guangxi”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 May 2022, Industry, Materials and Utilities:

     The capacity of the plant, in the southeast coastal city of Fangchenggang, is set to expand to 30 million tonnes after the third phrase of construction, although the companies have given no time frame for its completion.

   • 2011, Larry Bond, Jim DeFelice, Shock of War (Red Dragon Rising)‎^[2] (Fiction), New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:

     They were definitely somewhere between Fangchenggang and the Vietnamese border, much closer to the border he thought than the city, but given the fact that they’d fallen asleep and drifted for hours, who really could tell?

   • 2011, John D. Kuhns, “Chinese Handcuffs”, in China Fortunes: A Tale of Business in the New World‎^[3], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 477:

     Arriving at the Nanning airport, Mr. Qi picked them up and they drove two hours southeast through the limestone hills of central Guangxi province to Fangchenggang.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fangchenggang.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防城港 (zh) (Fángchénggǎng)

• Japanese: 防城港 (Bōjōkō)
• Zhuang: Fangzcwngzgangj