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Shijiazhuang (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 02 29 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.0414 decimal degrees |
| Long: 114 28 43 E degrees minutes |
Long: 114.4786 decimal degrees |
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Note: Grew rapidly after arrival of railway in 1905; by 1935 had become an economic center; population again increased after industrialization began in 1949; is site of China's largest pharmaceutical plant. |
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| Shijiazhuang (preferred,C,V,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones),U)
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| Schihkiatschwang (C,V)
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| Shihchiachuang (C,V)
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| Shih-chia-chuang (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shihkiachwang (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Chen-t'ou (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Chentow (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shih-chia-chuang-shih (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shih-chuang-shih (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shihjiazhuang (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shihkiachwan (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shih-men (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shih-men-shih (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shijiazhuang Shi (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shitszyachzhuan (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| 石家庄 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| Shih-i (H,V)
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............ | during pre-Han period, before 206 BC |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Hebei (province) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled since 300 BC |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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since 1945 |
| administrative center (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| mining center (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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