Shandong

//ʃænˈtɔŋ// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.

    "We couldn’t solve this problem by the force of one co-op alone, so we united co-ops. But the people were still discussing the best form of agricultural production. “Then Chairman Mao inspected agriculture in Shandong Province and issued the call for people’s communes, summed up in his slogan, ‘People’s Communes are Fine!’"

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 山東 /山东 (Shāndōng).

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