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Tangshan

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Tang·shan  (tängshän, däng-)
A city of northeast China east-southeast of Beijing. It was devastated in 1976 by a massive earthquake in which an estimated 242,000 people were killed. Population: 1,270,000.
Tangshan [ˈtæŋˈʃæn]
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(Placename) an industrial city in NE China, in Hebei province. Pop.: 1 210 842 (1999 est.)
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Noun1.Tangshan - an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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The 16 recruits showed off their wings at a parade day in Tangshan, in northern China.
Wonder birds are go by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy charged the deadly gas explosion at the Tangshan Iron and Steel Co.
Steel factory explosion kills at least 2 in n. China by Asian Economic News
1976: One of the greatest natural disasters of recent centuries occurred when an earthquake hit Tangshan in China, killing three-quarters of a million people.
Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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