Zhangqiao
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 張橋/张桥 (Zhāngqiáo).
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Zhangqiao
- A town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China, formerly a township.
- 2014 December 22, Zhuang Pinghui, “Chinese men fined for catching almost 1,700 protected wild geckos in one night”, in South China Morning Post[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2014:
- The group of seven had driven up to a village in Zhangqiao town in a minivan late one September night. There, they used home-made traps to catch the geckos, which they planned to sell. But they were caught and the 1,689 geckos that they caught were released back into the wild.