# Datong
## English
### Alternative forms

* Tatung, Ta-tung (Wade–Giles)

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大同 (Dàtóng).

### Proper noun

Datong
* A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
** 2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2017, Asia Pacific‎:Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”
* A Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining, Qinghai, China.
** 2022 August 18, Beijing newsroom, “Flooding caused by heavy rain kills 16 in western China”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 18 August 2022, China‎:Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, population 403,368, of Qinghai province started late Wednesday, causing flooding on the mountains and triggered landslides, according to China's state broadcaster CCTV.
* A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
** 2015 July 14, Abraham Gerber, “Urban renewal plans for Datong District revealed”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 August 2015, Taiwan News, page 4‎:A cross-dike platform is among the plans for an urban renewal project in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), officials from the Taipei City Government’s Department of Urban Development said yesterday.
** 2015 December 19, Ralph Jennings, “Taipei's historic Datong District gets new lease of life”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2015, Travel‎:Over the past five years or so, the Datong District has been rewarding travellers looking for tea, herbal medicine or puppet shows on self-guided tours of low-rises built during the late 19th century and the occupation by Japan, which began in 1895. […] Similar architecture can be found elsewhere in Taipei, but in pockets rather than as whole neighbourhoods, as in Datong.
* A mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
** 2023 September 4, James Lo, “Offices, schools closed in parts of Taiwan due to lingering effects of storm”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 04 September 2023, Society‎:Up north in Yilan, only the county's Sih-Ji Elementary School in Datong Township is suspended, for both the school's main and satellite campuses.
* Synonym of Taedong (North Korea): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
** 2008 September, Dong Yaohui [董耀会], “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城]‎, 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:The Han Great Wall ran throughout Kuche, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other provinces and autonomous regions, and ended to the north of DPRK’s Datong River estuary.
** 2017, Hongzhou Zhang, Mingjiang Li, China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :The Yalu River was originally China's inland river. In 735 AD, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong set the boundaries along the Datong River, the south belonged to Shilla while the north was the territory of Tang.
** 2022, Dai Jianbing, Luqian Peng, Xiaorong Chen, “Currency Culture Exchange between China and Ancient Eastern Asia”, in The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:In the archaeological excavation, large numbers of Chinese coin, such as Half-Liang, Five Zhu, Huo Quan, Da Quan Fifty, Xiao Quan Zhi Yi, Huo Bu, etc., were unearthed from the original site of Lelang Prefecture (today's region of Qi Cheng Li on the South Bank of Datong River in Pyongyang, North Korea).
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Datong.

#### Descendants

* Translingual: Datonglong

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Datong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 972, column 2

## Spanish
### Proper noun

Datong ?
* Datong (a city in China)