Xinxing County
| Xinxing County | |
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| County | |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture | Yunfu |
| Population (2010) | 428,410 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Xinxing County | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新興 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 新兴 | ||||||||
| Postal | Sunhing | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Newly Flourishing | ||||||||
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Xinxing County, formerly romanized as Sunhing,[lower-alpha 1] Sin-hing,[1] and Sih-ching.[2]</ref> is a county of the prefecture-level city of Yunfu in Guangdong, China.
History
Under the Qing, Xinxing County was administered as part of the commandery of Zhaoqing.[3]
Notes
- ↑ The Postal Map spelling was based on Xinxing's Cantonese pronunciation. Xinxing has also been romanized as Sin Hing,<ref name='FOOTNOTEBolton ,<span>,&,</span>, al.1941[https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6irEoGgDrm4C,<span>,&,</span>,pg=PA262 262]'>Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.
References
Citations
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1878), Vol. V, "China".
- ↑ Gützlaff, Charles, China Opened, p. 527.
- ↑ Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.
Bibliography
- Bolton, Kingsley; et al. (1941), Triad Societies, Vol. 5, Abingdon: Routledge, reprinted 2000.
Coordinates: 22°37′58″N 112°11′51″E / 22.63278°N 112.19750°E
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