Jincheng

• (postal romanization) Kincheng
• (from Wade–Giles) Chincheng, Chin-ch'eng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金城 (Jīnchéng).

Jincheng

1. An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen, Taiwan.
   • 2007, Macdonald, Phil, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan‎ (Travel), 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, OCLC 938505593, page 200, column 1:

     Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.

   • 2011, Stephenson, Neal, Reamde‎ (Fiction), London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, OCLC 824175727, OL 32615756M, page 511:

     THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.

   • 2016 September 11, Schmitz, Rob, “On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 11 September 2016, Asia:

     At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.

   • 2021 December 28, “Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB”, in Taipei Times‎, ISSN 1563-9525, OCLC 464696902, archived from the original on 27 December 2014‎:

     In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (金城) and at Cih Lake (慈湖).

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 晉城／晋城 (Jìnchéng).

Jincheng

1. A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.