Ankang
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Ankang
- A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
- 1934 August 11, The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 11, →OCLC, page 432, column 2:
- The Shensi Provincial Government has approved the plan of its Provincial Department of Reconstruction for the building of a highway to connect Sian city with Tsoshui, Chen-an and Ankang, in southeastern Shensi and another road from Shang-hsien past Ankang to link up with the Sian-Chingtsukwan and Hanyin-Paiho Highways. Survey work is to be started soon.
- 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:
- The Han Shui valley in the extreme south, with the subregional towns of Hanchung and Ankang, and the entire northern section of Shensi remain without rail transportation.
- 2013 October 3, “Giant Hornets Kill Dozens in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-06, Asia Pacific:
- Hornet attacks have been reported elsewhere in China as well. Last month, a swarm attacked a primary school in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China, injuring 30 people, including 23 children. But the most serious attacks, according to the state-run news media, have taken place in rural areas near Ankang City, in the southeastern part of Shaanxi Province.
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prefecture-level city
Further reading
- Ankang, An-k'ang, An-kang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Ankang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140, column 2