Datong

Proper noun

1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
   • Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many...
2. A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
   • Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state...
3. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday. - 2015 July 14, Abraham...
   • Over the past five years or so, the Datong District has been rewarding travellers looking for tea, herbal medicine or puppet shows on self-guided tours of low-rises built during the late 19th century and the occupation...
4. A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
   • Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses. - 2023 September 4, James Lo, “Offices, schools closed in parts of Taiwan...
5. Synonym of Taedong (North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary. - 2008 September, Dong Yaohui...
   • For instance, an illustration in the Dianshizhai huabao shows the battle at the Datong river near Pingrang in September 1894 (Figure 6). - 2014 April, Judith Fröhlich, “Pictures of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”,...
   • The Yalu River was originally China's inland river. In 735 AD, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong set the boundaries along the Datong River, the south belonged to Shilla while the north was the territory of Tang....

   Synonyms: Taedong