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Koneko -

It's quite interesting to know that London is also known as "City of Fog" in Chinese.

I also know the followings:-

Paris = City of Flowers
Taiwan = Treasure Island
Hong Kong = Pearl of the Orient
Macao = Las Vegas of the Orient
Singapore = Lion City
Malaysia = Giant Horse?

I am hoping to compile a list of alternative Country/ City names in Chinese.
Please help me to expand this list if you know your country's / city's nicknames in Chinese.

Thanks!



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doumeizhen -

周庄 （Zhouzhuang, outside of Shanghai) - The Venice of the East

According to their tourism board.










michfr -

Old Gold Hill: San Francisco










Jizzosh -

Las Vegas, is most commonly referred to as (I can't write the characters on my work PC):
Du3cheng2, or Gambling city.










Ardison -

chénɡ du = xiū xián zhī dōu = City of Pleasure
成 都 = 休 闲 之 都


chónɡ qìnɡ = shān chénɡ = City of Mountains
重 庆 = 山 城


lú zhōu = zhōnɡ ɡuó jiǔ chénɡ = China Wine City
泸 州 = 中 国 酒 城


yí bīn = wàn lǐ chánɡ jiānɡ dì yì chénɡ = First City of Yangzi River
宜 宾 = 万 里 长 江 第 一 城










Koneko -

I think, Sydney is known as "Snowy Pear" in Taiwanese Chinese!!










Prodigal Son -



Quote:

It's quite interesting to know that London is also known as "City of Fog" in Chinese.

how do you say this in Chinese? the only way I know how to say London is 伦敦










skylee -



Quote:


Originally Posted by Prodigal Son

how do you say this in Chinese? the only way I know how to say London is 伦敦


霧都 (wu4 du1)










Paolo -

I am from Treviso, a town near Venice (the real Italian one of course)... so, when in China, I
always get sick at people telling me that I am from 水城 or "The City of Water" and asking if I
had a boat instead of a car!










adrianlondon -

Nearly every chinese guy I've met who hasn't been abroad (that's most of 'em) ask "oh, London has
lots of fog! Worse than Beijing, right?". I point out that London's fog problem was sorted out in
the 60's and was due only to coal heating, so didn't really have the nasty pollutants that
Beijing's smog has.

I can only assume that their national curriculum (should such a thing exist) has "Oh my golly
gosh, London is awfully foggy again, what ho!" in their English Language book somewhere.












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