Wanzhou

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州／万州 (Wànzhōu).

Proper noun

Wanzhou

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 November 2015, Travel‎:

     After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.

   • 2018 November 2, “Woman fought with driver, causing bus to fall in China river”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 16 August 2022‎:

     A statement from Wanzhou district police said the 48-year-old female passenger asked the driver to pull over after she missed her stop, but he didn’t.

   • 2023 July 5, Bernard Orr, Ella Cao, Ethan Wang, “Rain kills 15 in southwest China as Xi urges better defences”, in Andrea Ricci, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 5 July 2023, Asia Pacific‎:

     In Wanzhou district, northeast of Chongqing, floods have caused 227.8 million yuan ($31.5 million) worth of economic losses, state broadcaster CCTV said.

Further reading

• Wanzhou, Wan-chou, Wanchou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.