Nanjing

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[nahn-jing]

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noun

Pinyin.

a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in eastern China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.

Nanjing

/ ˈnænˈtʃɪŋ, ˈnænˈkɪŋ, ˈnænˈdʒɪŋ /

noun

a port in E central China, capital of Jiangsu province, on the Yangtze River: capital of the Chinese empire and a literary centre from the 14th to 17th centuries; capital of Nationalist China (1928–37); site of a massacre of about 300 000 civilians by the invading Japanese army in 1937; university (1928). Pop: 2 806 000 (2005 est)

Nanjing

City in eastern China on the Yangtze River, northeast of Shanghai; an industrial and transportation center.

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During the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, Nanjing was the scene of a Japanese massacre (the Rape of Nanking) and became the seat of a puppet regime established by the Japanese.

China's imperial capital on several occasions, it was made capital of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 after the Chinese Revolution, by Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 to 1937, and again from 1946 to 1949.

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After missing the 2025 World Indoors in Nanjing in March, Mills and his team had focused on 1500m races so as to avoid tiring him out over longer distances.

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Yukun Tao travelled across nine countries from his home city of Nanjing, near Shanghai in China, to Durham by car last September.

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But she held her nerve following a mid-race shove from Holmes before measuring her final effort to perfection to claim her first international title in Nanjing, China.

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Gold in Glasgow 12 months ago represented Caudery's first global title, but the 25-year-old fell agonisingly short of the podium in Nanjing, China.

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It saw him cross the line one hundredth of a second ahead of Australian Lachlan Kennedy, who was initially shown as the winner on the big screen in Nanjing, China.

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