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Anshan

American  
[ahn-shahn] / ˈɑnˈʃɑn /

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
  1. a city in E Liaoning province, in NE China.


Anshan British  
/ ˌænˈʃæn /

noun

  1. a city in NE China, in Liaoning province. Pop: 1 459 000 (2005 est)

  2. an ancient city and region in Persia, associated with Elam

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Ms. Sun, who has no family ties to the party’s revolutionary founders, started as a worker at a factory that made watches in the northeastern city of Anshan.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2022

Parts of Zhengzhou, an iPhone manufacturing hub, and the steel city of Anshan were still in lockdown on Sunday.

From Seattle Times Oct. 17, 2022

Anshan and Gindalbie’s Karara mine is the first of at least eight magnetite iron ore projects planned for the state’s Mid West grain belt in the next decade.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 2, 2011

Anshan Iron & Steel said in May that it had agreed to take a 14 percent stake in a $175 million facility being built in Amory, Mississippi by Steel Development Co, a U.S. start-up.

From Reuters Aug. 19, 2010

Anshan is a district of Elam or Susiana, the exact position of which is still subject to much discussion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

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