Kunming

//kʊnˈmɪŋ// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Yunnan, in southwestern China.

    "The Minister of Commerce and Industry is pushing forward proposals for the development of mining, and has placed before the Cabinet a scheme for the division of the country into eight mining districts to be controlled by the Mining Supervision Bureau.[…]The fifth division will be Shensi, Kansu, and Singkiang^([sic – meaning Sinkiang]), with headquarters at Changan; the sixth will be Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Fukien, with headquarters at Canton; the seventh will be Yunnan and Kweichow, with headquarters at Kunming, in Yunnan; and the eighth will be Szechuan alone, with headquarters at Chengtu."

Example

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"I'm living in Kunming at the moment."

Etymology

From Mandarin 昆明 (Kūnmíng).

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