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Zhenjiang

American  
[jœn-jyahng] / ˈdʒœnˈdʒyɑŋ /
(Wade-Giles) Chenchiang

noun

Pinyin.
  1. a port in southern Jiangsu province, in eastern China, on the Chang Jiang.


Zhenjiang British  
/ ˈdʒʌnˈdʒjæŋ /

noun

  1. a port in E China, in S Jiangsu at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Pop: 620 000 (2005 est)

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He’d been studying chemistry in China — where he was born and raised, between Shaanxi province and Zhenjiang — when he realized that he wanted to pursue something creative.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Hu Zhenjiang, deputy director-general of China's civil aviation administration, said the search would continue for the remains of the victims and parts of plane wreckage, Chinese news website Sina reported.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2022

Several Buddhist bell-ringing ceremonies in the eastern cities of Nanjing, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang to celebrate the new year have also been scrapped.

From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2021

To gear up, Yan’s three factories in Shanghai, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang have doubled production this year to two million light bulbs a day from one million three years ago.

From Forbes • Apr. 11, 2011

In Zhenjiang, on the Yangtze River, Pearl Buck's childhood home where once the mob would hurl threats and insults at her, there is now a museum in her honour.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010