# Chongqing
## English
### Alternative forms

* Chong-qing, Chong Qing (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
* Chungking (Postal Romanization)
* Chungching, Ch'ung-ch'ing (Wade–Giles)
* Tchang-king (19th century romanization)

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 重慶 / 重庆 (Chóngqìng).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
* (US) IPA: /t͡ʃɑŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
* enPR: chŏngchǐngʹ
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Proper noun

Chongqing
* A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
** 2012 April 18, Michael Wines, “Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2012, Asia Pacific‎:The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.
** 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, Sinosphere‎:Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
** 2019 April 11, Keith Bradsher, “For Chinese Raised in Prosperity, Shrugs in the Face of Layoffs”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2019, China Dispatch‎:For nearly four years, he worked in one of the three cavernous Ford Motor assembly plants in Chongqing, a sprawling metropolis in southwestern China with almost 20 million people. Every day, he spent long hours putting brake fluid into the Ford Focus compact cars that glided past on the assembly line.
** 2022 January 7, Gabriel Crossley, “Multiple people trapped after explosion in China's Chongqing - state media”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 07 January 2022, China:A canteen in China's southwest municipality of Chongqing collapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chongqing.

#### Derived terms

* Chongqing chicken
* Chongqing dog

#### Translations
### See also

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text) :
* Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
* Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
* Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
* Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

### Further reading

* “Chongqing”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “Chongqing, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “Chongqing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Chongqing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “Chongqing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongqing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 792, column 1

## French
### Alternative forms

* Tchoung King (dated)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 重慶 / 重庆 (Chóngqìng).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʃɔŋt.ʃiŋ/

### Proper noun

Chongqing f
* Chongqing (a direct-administered municipality and city in western China)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Mandarin 重慶 / 重庆 (Chóngqìng).

### Proper noun

Chongqing f
* Chongqing (a direct-administered municipality and city in western China)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 重慶 / 重庆 (Chóngqìng).

### Proper noun

Chongqing f
* Chongqing (a direct-administered municipality and city in western China)