铜陵 (Tónglíng): Tongling (prefecture-level city, Anhui)

Meanings

1 Tongling (prefecture-level city, Anhui)

Characters

铜

Examples

铜陵是安徽南部的一座工业城市。

Tónglíng shì Ānhuī nánbù de yí zuò gōngyè chéngshì.

Tongling is an industrial city in southern Anhui.

铜陵的铜矿开采历史超过三千年。

Tónglíng de tóngkuàng kāicǎi lìshǐ chāoguò sān qiān nián.

Tongling has been mining copper for over three thousand years.

Tips

culture

The name literally means 'Copper Ridge' — and Tongling is one of China's oldest continuous copper-mining sites, with Shang-dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) smelting slag found at 铜陵铜矿. Still a major producer today, the city nicknames itself 中国古铜都 'China's ancient capital of copper.'