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Langfang
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Lángfāng Lángfáng
English
Etymology
From en cmn 廊坊.
Pronunciation
läng′fäng′
en Lang fang
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Hebei c/China.
en 1966 w:James E. Sheridan Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlordca0000sher/mode Stanford, CA w:Stanford University Press 65-18978 929707858 5947093M 63 https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlordca0000sher/page/63/ While there he received a wire from Tuan Ch’i-jui, who was at that time Minister of War and Premier, ordering him to station the bulk of his troops in the vicinity of Langfang, about halfway between Peking and Tientsin.
en JANUARY 11, 2021 Jing Wang; Andrew Galbraith; Roxanne Liu; Lusha Zhang; Se Young Lee Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat Michael Perry; Raju Gopalakrishnan; Sam Holmes https://web.archive.org/web/20210112061012/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-idUSKBN29H07C 12 January 2021 w:Reuters Healthcare & Pharma The city of Langfang in Hebei on Tuesday said its 4.9 million residents will be put under home quarantine for seven days and be subject to mass COVID-10 testing in the latest attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.Two counties under Langfang’s jurisdiction that border Beijing, Guan and Sanhe, had already announced home quarantine measures.
en
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 廊坊
Mandarin: cmn 廊坊 Lángfáng
Further reading
en 1998 Langfang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1682 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1682/ 3