Central

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English

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Proper noun

Central

  1. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
  2. Central (an area in Central and Western district, Hong Kong)
    • 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit‎:
      The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
    • 2015 October 2, Emily Rauhala, “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, one year later”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2015, World‎:
      Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.
    • 2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 July 2016‎:
      For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.
  3. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
  4. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Central

  1. A municipality of Bahia, Brazil

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtɾal/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtɾal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: Cen‧tral

Proper noun

Central ?

  1. A department of Paraguay

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