Datong
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Definitions
- 1 A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
"Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”"
- 2 A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
"Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV."
- 3 A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
"A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday."
- 4 A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
"Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses."
- 5 Synonym of Taedong (North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
"The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary."
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More examples"Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”"
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大同 (Dàtóng).
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