Chengdu

Meaning

Proper Noun

provincial capital (subprovincial city) Sichuan (province) in southwestern China (country).

Origin

From Chinese 成都, supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.

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