Meaning of Tongren | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
2. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.

Examples

“The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture. They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened.[…] The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.”

“Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.”

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