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| | the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫 | |
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| | Chinatown | |
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| | unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | capital of a country | |
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| | shopping center / department store | HSK 6 |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | Mexico City, capital of Mexico | |
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| | Manchester, England / Manchester City football club | |
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| | Dacheng County in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei / Dacheng or Tacheng Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan | |
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| | casino town / nickname for Las Vegas | |
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| | border town / remote town | |
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| | ghost town | |
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| | to besiege (a town) | |
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| | whole city | |
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| | to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work) | |
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| | Christchurch (New Zealand city) | |
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| | Decheng district of Dezhou city 德州市, Shandong | |
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| | Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies | |
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| | Carson City, capital of Nevada | |
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| | (Tw) Cannes, France | |
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| | Yangcheng county in Jincheng 晉城|晋城, Shanxi | |
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| | famous city | |
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| | Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书, filmed as a TV serial | |
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| | siege / besieged city | |
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| | Checheng township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan | |
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| | Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 菲尼克斯 | |
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| | Haidian Book City, Beijing bookstore | |
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| | Ankorwat, Cambodia | |
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| | Bay nahiyisi (Baicheng county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang | |
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| | Mo i Rana (city in Nordland, Norway) | |
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| | Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general | |
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| | Licheng district of Jinan city 濟南市|济南市, Shandong | |
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| | Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction | |
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| | old town / old district of a city | |
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| | the Acropolis (Athens) | |
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| | semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican | |
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| | university city | |
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| | encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city | |
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| | county seat; county town | |
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| | to recover some lost ground (in a competition) | |
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| | the Great Wall | |
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| | capital city of King Helu of Wu from 6th century BC, at modern Wuxi, Jiangsu | |
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| | Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang | |
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| | Jiaocheng county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | Vatican City, capital of Holy See | |
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| | Weicheng district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong | |
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| | Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone (Tw) | |
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| | inner castle / donjon | |
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| | Putrajaya, federal administrative territory of Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur city 吉隆坡市 | |
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| | Yuecheng district of Shaoxing city 紹興市|绍兴市, Zhejiang | |
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| | Dabancheng district of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang | |
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| | coming from everywhere / from all over the place / gorgeous (of woman) / to ruin and overturn the state | |
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| | Great Firewall of China (system for restricting access to foreign websites) | |
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| | Syracuse, New York | |
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| | square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square) | |
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| | Holy City | |
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| | city of culture | |
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| | Kowloon City, Hong Kong | |
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| | Pyongsong (city in North Korea) | |
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| | the Lion City, nickname for Singapore 新加坡 | |
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| | Yangcheng, a nickname for 廣州|广州 | |
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| | Ruicheng county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi | |
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| | Jiayuguan fort in the Gansu corridor / Ming dynasty military fort, the western end of the Great Wall | |
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| | to massacre everyone in a captured city | |
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