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Nanshan
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Nánshān
English
Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Alternative forms
en Nan-shan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 南山 South Mountain; any southern mountain, hill, range, or island.
Pronunciation
nän′shän′cf. Nan Shan 1282 2
en æn 2
en Nan shan
Proper noun
Various towns, districts, and subdistricts of China.
en district city/Shenzhen province/Guangdong country/China across Deep Bay from Hong Kong.
en June 13, 2003 Ivy Zhang Was the Right Person Elected? w:Beijing Today https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20030613/ 108 958634538 8 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20030613/page/n7/ 1 In the election on May 9, Chen Huibin won, but the other candidate, Wu Haining, cried foul. As Chen was preparing for a five-year term as the local delegate, starting with the fourth Nanshan District People’s Congress held on May 27, Wu claimed the election was fraudulent and reported it to the Shenzhen and Nanshan District People’s Congress Standing Committee.
en 2012 Behzad Yaghmaian The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China https://archive.org/details/accidentalcapita0000yagh/ w:Pluto Press 978-0-7453-3231-4 761850307 25392221M 160 https://archive.org/details/accidentalcapita0000yagh/page/160/ Shenzhen’s Nanshan District is scattered with state-of-the-art high-rises, impressive corporate headquarters, government buildings, five-star hotels, and fancy shopping malls.
en JULY 26, 2016 Tris Pan; Lindsy Long; Sharon Shi; Clare Baldwin Two Hong Kong magazine executives jailed in China - lawyer Robert Birsel https://web.archive.org/web/20220507120702/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-hongkong-magazine-china-prison/two-hong-kong-magazine-executives-jailed-in-china-lawyer-idUKKCN1061DP 07 May 2022 w:Reuters World News On Tuesday, the Shenzhen Nanshan District Court sentenced Wang Jianmin, 63, to five years and three months in jail and Guo Zhongxiao, 41, to two years and three months, Wang’s lawyer, Chen Nansha, said.[...]The Shenzhen Nanshan District Court, district government and foreign affairs office did not immediately respond to a request comment. The Hong Kong police said arrests in mainland China were outside of their jurisdiction.
en
en district prefecture-level city/Hegang p/Heilongjiang c/China.
en 2019 Yun Jiang; Yanjun Li; Guanzhuang Zhang The Influence and Integrated Governance Planning of Coal Mining Subsidence Areas in Hegang City IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/330/3/032092/pdf 330 3 10.1088/1755-1315/330/3/032092 1755-1315 1077852635 4 The modern industrial zone is located in the northeast of the Hegang coal mining area, including Xinlu West, Yixin West and Nanshan West, with a planned area of 13 km2. The administrative area is mainly affiliated to the northeastern part of Xingshan District of Hegang City, the southeast of Xiangyang District, and the eastern part of Nanshan District. It is less than 5km away from Hegang Railway Station. https://web.archive.org/web/20261021083617/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/330/3/032092/pdf 21 October 2026
An island in the Spratly archipelago of the Philippines.
en January 16, 2024 Sebastian Strangio Philippines to Upgrade South China Sea Outposts, Military Chief Says w:The Diplomat https://web.archive.org/web/20240116035143/https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/philippines-to-upgrade-south-china-sea-outposts-military-chief-says/ https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/philippines-to-upgrade-south-china-sea-outposts-military-chief-says/ January 16, 2024 ASEAN Beat Brawner said that the government hoped to install desalination machines and communications equipment on Thitu Island and Nanshan Island. Thitu, known to Manila as Pag-asa, is the largest Philippine-occupied feature in the South China Sea, boasting an airstrip and landing dock, and supporting a population of around 200. A handful of Philippine soldiers and their families are stationed on Nanshan or Lawak Island. All nine Philippine-occupied outposts exist in a precarious umbilical relationship to the Philippine mainland, reliant on regular navy supply missions and acutely vulnerable to blockade by Chinese vessels.
en January 16, 2024 Philippines plans to upgrade outposts in South China Sea w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240115163509/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/01/16/2003812157 15 January 2024 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/01/16/2003812157 1563-9525 464696902 Front Page 1 The Philippine Congress has earmarked 800 million pesos (US$14.3 million) for the transportation department to build a port facility on Nanshan Island (zh 馬歡島) where boats, including those for fishing, could seek shelter.
A dormant volcano in northeastern China's Keluo volcanic field.
en uncommon An alternative term for the Qilian Mountains between Gansu and Qinghai in western China, from their position south of the Hexi Corridor.
Related terms
en Nanzan, for Japanese placenames derived from the same characters
en Namsan, for Korean placenames derived from the same characters
Translations
locations
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 南山 Nánshān
Japanese: ja
References
Anagrams
en aahnnns Hannans
en 2-syllable words