[nahn-jing] 
| a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China. 1,750,000. |
[jyahng-sy] | a maritime province in E China. 44,500,000; 40,927 sq. mi. (106,001 sq. km). Capital: Nanjing. |
| Nan·jing (nän'jĭng') A city of east-central China on the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) northwest of Shanghai. The capital of China from the third to the sixth century A.D. and again from 1368 to 1421, it was opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. It was Sun Yat-sen's capital from 1912 to 1927 and Chiang Kai-shek's capital from 1928 to 1937, when it was captured by the Japanese. Reclaimed by Chinese forces in 1946, it is now the capital of Jiangsu province. Population: 2,820,000. |
City in eastern China on the Yangtze River, northeast of Shanghai; an industrial and transportation center.
Note: China's imperial capital on several occasions, it was made capital of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 after the Chinese Revolution, by Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 to 1937, and again from 1946 to 1949.
Note: During the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, Nanjing was the scene of a Japanese massacre (the Rape of Nanking) and became the seat of a puppet regime established by the Japanese.