Nangang

• enPR: nän′gäng′
• Hyphenation: Nan‧gang

From Mandarin 南崗 / 南岗.

Nangang

1. A district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
   • [1968 November 9 [1968 November 7], “Low-Level Heilungkiang Cadres Sentenced for Corruption”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page L 2:

     Embezzler and swindler (Hsiung I-wen), a clerk at the foundry of the (Yungchiu) production brigade, (Yuehchin) [translating 躍進 / 跃进 (Yuèjìn)] commune, (Nankang) district, Harbin Municipality, from March 1963 to January 1970 swindled 11,000 yuan in cash from 22 units and more than 20 persons in the name of assisting them to purchase parts, electrical appliances and bicycles; embezzled 3,400 yuan through bribery and blackmail; and pocketed some 7,000 yuan through false labor contracts, totaling 22,200 yuan.]

   • 2014 December 29, “Around the nation: world's largest exhibition centre in Shanghai near completion”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2014, China Insider‎^[2]:

     A woman in Harbin’s Nangang district has warned the public that her pet Tibetan mastiff is still at large and likely to be hungry after running off three days ago, the Modern Evening Times reports. The woman has offered a 10,000 yuan reward for help in finding the dog, which went missing while she was taking it to a veterinary clinic.

From Mandarin 南港 (Nángǎng).

• Nankang; NanKang; Nan-kang; Nan-chiang

Nangang

1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “T’AI-PEI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2:

     Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang.

   • 2017 February 13, “Speed a possible factor in Taiwan bus crash that killed 32”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 September 2022‎^[4]:

     The bus belonged to the private Yongli Keyun transit company and had been turning off the No. 5 freeway onto the No. 3 freeway in the eastern Taipei district of Nangang when it crashed at about 9 p.m.

   • 2024 February 16, “Taipei mayor touts lockers to reduce weight of student school bags”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[5], archived from the original on 16 February 2024, Culture‎^[6]:

     Chiang made the remark after greeting students at the front gate of Dong-xin Elementary School in Nangang District on the first day of their spring semester, saying he hopes students in elementary and junior high schools in the city will not have to carry school bags any heavier than one-eighth of their body weight.

• “Nangang”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.