Nanjing means "southern capital" and is the name of the current capital of Jiangsu Province and a former capital of China. It was formerly romanized as Nanking, Nan-ching, and Nankin.
Nanjing, Nanking, Nan-ching, and Nankin may also refer to:
Places
- Nanjing (Liao Dynasty), the historical name for Beijing during the Liao dynasty
- Nanjing, a historical name for Kaifeng
- Nanjing, a historical name for Shangqiu during the Northern Song dynasty
- Taipei, the current capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Nanjing County, (Chinese: 南靖; pinyin: Nánjìng) in Zhangzhou, Fujian province
- Nankin-machi, also called “Nanjingtown” or "Nanjing Town", a Chinatown in Kobe
Books and films
- Nan Jing, a classic medical work in traditional Chinese medicine
- Nanking (1938 film), a Japanese documentary film
- Nanking (2007 film), an American documentary film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre
Other
- The Nanking Puppet, a name for the Wang Jingwei regime set up by the Japanese occupation forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Nanjing Cherry, a common name for Prunus tomentosa (a deciduous shrub)
- 2078 Nanking, an asteroid
- Nankin bantam, a bantam breed of chicken
See also
- Nankeen, a kind of pale yellowish cloth named for the Chinese city
- Nankeen kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
- Nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
- All pages with titles beginning with Nanjing
- All pages with titles containing Nanjing
- All pages with titles beginning with Nanking
- All pages with titles containing Nanking
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