Shandong
//ʃænˈtɔŋ// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 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!’"
Example
More examples"I still remember the first time I was in China; I was in Shandong, and I realised that that province alone is twenty six thousand square kilometres bigger than England."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 山東 /山东 (Shāndōng).
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