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Yang⋅zhou
[yahng-joh] 
–noun Pinyin.
| a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China. 180,200. |
Also, Wade-Giles, Yangchou; Older Spelling, Yangchow.
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| Yang·zhou also Yang·chow (yäng'jō') A city of east-central China on the Grand Canal. It was a capital of China in the sixth century A.D. and an important literary and cultural center. Marco Polo was governor of the city from 1282 to 1285. Population: 531,000. |
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Yangzhou
city, southwest-central Jiangsu province (sheng), eastern China. It lies to the north of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) at the southern terminus of the section of the Grand Canal that joins the Huai River to the Yangtze. Pop. (2002 est.) 548,204.
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