Fangchenggang

Fang·cheng·gang
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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.

    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.

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

    2008 September 3, “China launches 30 mln-tn steel project in Guangxi”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 May 2022, Industry, Materials and Utilities

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

Origin

  1. Mandarin防城港
  2. EnglishFangchenggang

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

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 防城港
  • 防城港 (fong⁴ sing⁴ gong²)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 防城港
  • 防城港 (Fángchénggǎng)prefecture-level city
Japanese 防城港
  • 防城港 (Bōjōkō)prefecture-level city
Vietnamese Phòng Thành Cảng
  • Phòng Thành Cảngprefecture-level city
Cite this entry
APA

Fangchenggang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fangchenggang

MLA

“Fangchenggang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fangchenggang. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Fangchenggang,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fangchenggang.

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