Jincheng

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1. An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.

   THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.

   2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde (Fiction), London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 511

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   Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.

   2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200, column 1

   At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.

   2016 September 11, Rob Schmitz, “On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons”, in NPR, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2016, Asia

   In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (金城) and at Cih Lake (慈湖).

   2021 December 28, “Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2014

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1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.

   The man, surnamed Chai, from Jincheng city in Shanxi province, was outraged after he discovered the abandoned little puppy, according to Toutiao News.

   2022 October 31, Liya Su, “Heartwarming tales of man’s best friend: dog finds way home after 6 years, canine’s face scanned to open gate, puppy wrapped in plastic bag rescued”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2022, People & Culture

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   A sprawling, mountainous administrative region in the south of Shanxi province, Jincheng is still dominated by coal. Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.

   2018 November 26, David Stanway, Joseph Campbell, Muyu Xu, Shanghai newsroom, “Smog war casualty: China coal city bears brunt of pollution crackdown”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2018, World News