Putuo

alternative P'u-t'uo

1. An island of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
2. A district of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.

   The typhoon landed in the Putuo district of the city of Zhoushan, a major port in the east coast province of Zhejiang, at 12:30 p.m. (0430 GMT) on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing the China Meteorological Administration.

   2021 July 25, Dominique Patton, Sophie Yu, “East China braces for typhoon In-fa after flooding in country's centre”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2021, China

3. A district of Shanghai, China.

   At one apartment complex in Shanghai’s Putuo district, residents fiercely protested after the residential committee put a U-lock on the door to their building on April 16.

   2022 April 29, Huizhong Wu, Chen Si, “EXPLAINER: How China is using metal barriers to fight COVID”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022

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   Satisfied, she poked at scraps of wood glowing in the small stove holding the wok, which stood on a pile of rubble outside her door in the slums of this city's Putuo District.[…] Altogether, about 15,000 people live along with Mrs. Zhi in the Putuo slums, a raged swath of land on the northwestern edges of the city crowded with ramshackle miniature houses that were thrown up helter-skelter in the 1930's and 40's.

   1987 January 5, Edward A. Gargan, “SHANGHAI JOURNAL; ERASING THE SLUMS? THE 64-SQUARE-FOOT QUESTION”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2009, World