Fukang

Fùkāng English Fukang City Alternative forms en Fu-k'ang Wade-Giles Etymology en Pronunciation en /fuːˈkæŋ/ /fuːˈkɑŋ/ fo͞o′käng′Fukang or Fu-k’ang 649 2 en Fu kang Proper noun en county-level city Hui Autonomous Prefecture/Changji ar/Xinjiang c/China. en 1927 w:Mildred Cable; w:Francesca French Through Jade Gate and Central Asia https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2338/ w:Hodder and Stoughton 1937 949900543 255 https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2338/page/255/ Leaving the little "hsien" city of Fukang—"The Mound of Peace"—we realised with delight that only one more night in an inn lay between us and the Mission Compound in Urumchi, where we should find a bed, sheets, bathing facilities in the place of the small tin basin which we carried, and the possibilities of getting our clothes washed. en 1943 China at War https://books.google.com/books?id=lIhKAAAAMAAJ 10-11 China Information Publishing Company 1554305 29 Another mountain lake at Fukang will be tapped to water 45,000 mow of nothern Sinkiang farms. en 12 July 2005 Celine Sun At least 65 dead in Xinjiang coal mine explosion w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101552/https://www.scmp.com/article/507949/least-65-dead-xinjiang-coal-mine-explosion May 31, 2024 https://www.scmp.com/article/507949/least-65-dead-xinjiang-coal-mine-explosion 1563-9371 648902513 The explosion occurred at 2.40am in the Shenlong mine, 38km east of the city of Fukang, when 87 miners were working underground. en JULY 15, 2014 Ben Blanchard Chinese city bans, destroys matches to fight terror Michael Urquhart https://web.archive.org/web/20220602100505/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/chinese-city-bans-destroys-matches-to-fight-terror-idUSKBN0FK0RN20140715 02 June 2022 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/chinese-city-bans-destroys-matches-to-fight-terror-idUSKBN0FK0RN20140715 w:Reuters Emerging Markets Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.Police destroyed 20,223 boxes of matches, which will ensure that the city maintains its current peaceful environment, the newspaper added, citing the local government. Synonyms en Fou-k'ang Translations city in Xinjiang, China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 阜康 Mandarin: cmn 阜康 Fùkāng Japanese: ja Korean: ko 푸캉 References Further reading en 2008 Fukang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1292 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1292/ 3