Mentougou

alternative Men-t'ou-kou · alternative Mentoukou

1. A district of Beijing, China.

   State television showed footage of the military airdropping food and ponchos to residents in the Mentougou district in western Beijing, which has been hit especially hard.

   2023 August 1, Lily Kuo, Theodora Yu, Lillian Yang, “First the rain, then the mud: Typhoon wreaks havoc in Chinese capital”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023

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   Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more.

   2023 July 31, Chris Buckley, “Two Dead as Heavy Rains Batter Beijing, Putting City on Alert”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2023, Asia Pacific