Jiangsu

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Capital: Nanjing.

    "Days before the Lunar New Year holiday began on Feb. 1, a video spread online from a village in Feng county, located in Jiangsu province on the coast."

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"Our ancestral home is in Tongli, Jiangsu."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū, “Jiangning [i.e., Nanjing] and Suzhou”), from the province's two major cities.

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