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{{also|Fóshān|Fo-shan}}
==English==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|Fo-shan}}
* {{q|from [[French]]|obsolete}} {{l|en|Fo-chan}}

===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|cmn|-}} {{zh-l|佛山}}.

===Proper noun===
{{en-proper noun}}

# {{place|en|large prefecture-level city|p/Guangdong|in southeast|c/China}}.
#* {{quote-book
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/chinesegeneral01davi/
|year=1836
|title=The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants
|volume=1
|author=w:John Francis Davis
|location=New-York
|publisher=w:Harper & Brothers
|page=38
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/chinesegeneral01davi/page/38/
|passage=At '''Foshan''', about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|year=1857
|month=July-December
|author=w:Thomas De Quincey
|title=Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China.
|journal=Titan A Monthly Magazine
|url=https://archive.org/details/titanamonthlyma00goog/
|volume=XXV
|oclc=984467681
|page=69
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/titanamonthlyma00goog/page/69/
|column=1
|text='''Foshan''' is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=May 20, 1939
|origdate=May 19, 1939
|title=Chinese Attacks Cost Japanese 24 Planes and 3 Warships
|journal=w:Daily Worker
|url=https://archive.org/details/per_daily-worker_daily-worker_1939-05-20_16_120/
|location=New York
|volume=XVI
|issue=120
|source=CHUNGKING, China
|page=2
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/per_daily-worker_daily-worker_1939-05-20_16_120/page/n1/
|column=5
|text=At '''Foshan''', south of Canton, 147 Japanese soldiers have died of cholera.}}
#* {{quote-web
|en
|date=07 August 2020
|author=Sophie Stuber
|title=Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824044546/https://observers.france24.com/en/20200807-video-uighur-handcuffed-quarantine-centre
|archivedate=24 August 2020
|work=w:France 24
|text=Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of '''Foshan''' to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=June 6, 2022
|title=‘Fake’ Aluminum Stocks Put Perils of China’s Commodities Funding in Spotlight
|journal=w:The Washington Post
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318135247/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/fake-aluminum-stocks-put-perils-of-chinas-commodities-funding-in-spotlight/2022/06/05/af1ebfaa-e52b-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html
|archivedate=18 March 2023
|issn=0190-8286
|oclc=2269358
|section=Energy
|url2=https://archive.is/FB6Vm
|text=This time, metals markets are fixated on an incident in the southern province of Guangdong, in which several traders claim they were duped into providing credit against fictitious quantities of aluminum. More than 500 million yuan ($75 million) may have been loaned, backed by stockpiles of the metal stored in a warehouse in the city of '''Foshan''' that turned out to be worth significantly less than that.}}
#* {{seemoreCites|en}}

====Synonyms====
* {{q|from [[Cantonese]]}} {{l|en|Fatshan}}, {{l|en|Fat Shan}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a city of China}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|فُوشَان|m|tr=fušān}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|佛山|tr=fat6 saan1}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|佛山|tr=Fóshān}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ფოშანი}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|仏山|tr=[[ぶつざん]], Butsuzan}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|^불산}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|Фошан|m}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|फोशान|n}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|Фоша́нь|m}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|Phật Sơn}}
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===Further reading===
* {{cite-book|en|year=2008|chapter=Foshan|editor={{w|Saul B. Cohen}}|title=The Columbia Gazetteer of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/|edition=2nd|volume=1|location=[[New York]]|publisher={{w|Columbia University Press}}|isbn=978-0-231-14554-1|lccn=2008009181|oclc=212893637|page=1262|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1262/|column=1}}
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