Guang'an

• Kuang-an (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣安／广安 (Guǎng'ān).

Guang'an

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • [1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography‎, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 3:

     TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.]

   • 1993, Richard Evans, “Farmer's Son, 1904-20”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China‎, Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

     They lived in Paifang, a village a few miles from Guang'an, a county town - seat of an imperial magistrate - in the eastern part of the province.

   • [2007 August 13, “China sentences 11 who protested boy's death at hospital”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 March 2023, Asia Pacific‎:

     At the time, a report from Xinhua, the official press agency, confirmed that a dispute over medical fees had arisen at the hospital in Guangan city in Sichuan Province. […]
     The authorities in Guangan said that the boy had died of poisoning after drinking pesticide and not because of a lack of treatment.]

   • [2010 July 20, “China floods claim more lives”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 29 May 2022, World News‎:

     Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.]

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guang'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 1