banan

plural banans

1. informalrareBanana.

   "Hundreds of them," he exclaimed, "may be seen in New Orleans today, three generations from Italy, still pushing carts, yelling 'Banans,' 'Banans,' 'Banans'!!"

   1991, George E. Pozzetta, Immigrants on the Land: Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small Towns

1. A district of Chongqing, China.

   It was reported that Decathlon, the biggest global sports products retailer, is investigating the road logistics base in Banan District, which is planned to create a Southwest logistics distribution centre in Chongqing.

   2014, Retail Market Study Worldwide 2014, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 879

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   By 2006, after working in the city for nearly twenty years, Yu bought his first apartment in Chongqing’s Ban’an^([sic – meaning Banan]) District for US$20,000, securing a 70 per cent mortgage from a local rural credit company, now part of the restructured Chongqing Rural Credit Commercial Bank.

   2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60

   Its Indian arm, Maruti Suzuki, is the largest passenger-car manufacturer on the subcontinent, and Suzuki’s joint venture in China with Changan Automobile recently announced it would build a second plant in the Banan District of Chongqing. The plant will give the venture an annual capacity to build 500,000 cars.

   2012 April 19, Paul Stenquist, “Suzuki: Going Places Elsewhere, but Not in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023

   One of China’s top titanium producers has halted production at its unit in Chongqing after members of staff were found to be infected with the new coronavirus, a local government official said on Friday. Pangang Group Vanadium Titanium and Resources, which produces around 220,000 tonnes per year of titanium dioxide - used as white pigment in paints, paper, plastics and textiles - subsequently put the facility in Chongqing’s Banan district under lockdown, the Banan official said.

   2020 February 14, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China titanium producer Pangang shuts unit as coronavirus cases found”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2020, Commodities

   Extreme heat in China’s southwestern Chongqing municipality has left the city parched and several mountains ablaze. At least four districts have reported fires since Thursday, forcing 1,500 people from 540 households to be evacuated. The latest blaze broke out in Banan district on Sunday, while another in Jiangjin district that had been burning since Thursday was not put out until Monday morning.

   2022 August 22, Nick Yang, “Fires blaze in southwest China as extreme heat scorches region”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022, Politics