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Ningbo


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Ningbo

Ningpo

Ninghsien

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
First visited by Portuguese 1520; Portuguese expelled 1545; became treaty port by Treaty of Nanking 1842; industries include textiles, electrical equipment, canned foods, soap, ships, cotton, tea & fish.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Jiang Bibo (Chinese, born 1939)

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