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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寬甸宽甸 (Kuāndiàn).

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Kuandian

  1. A Manchu autonomous county in Dandong, Liaoning, China.
    • 2017 February 22, Brenda Goh, Meng Meng, Beijing newsroom, “Clampdown on North Korean trade squeezes Chinese border towns”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 22 February 2017, Business News‎[3]:
      "A few of my friends who used to smuggle goods from North Korea have gotten out of the business in the last two years because it's getting dangerous and not as lucrative," said an owner of a[sic] events hall in Kuandian, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Dandong, the largest city on the border.

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kwantien or K’uan-tien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 998, column 2

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