Tanggu
Tanggu District was a district in the Tianjin municipality, now part of the Binhai New Area. It is on the Hai River where it enters the Bohai Sea, and is a port for Tianjin, which is about 48 km upriver.- Type: Locality with 535,000 residents
- Description: former district of Tianjin, China
- Also known as: “T’ang-ku”, “Tanggu District”, “Tanggu, Tianjin”, and “Tung-ku”
- Historically known as: “Taku”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tianjin Binhai Library and Tanggu.
Tianjin Binhai Library
Library
Photo: Muzzleflash, CC0.
Tianjin Binhai New Area Library, nicknamed "The Eye", is a library in Tianjin, China. It is part of the Binhai Cultural Center, being one of its five central attractions.
Tanggu
Railway station
Photo: 1969社论, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tanggu railway station is a railway station located in Binhai District, Tianjin, China. It is on the Tianjin–Shanhaiguan railway and Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway.
Tianjin Juilliard School
University
Photo: Amazingloong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tianjin Juilliard School is a branch of the Juilliard School located in Binhai, Tianjin, China. It is the first institution in China which offers a U.S.-accredited Master of Music degree.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Binhai and Xincheng.
Binhai
Binhai, officially known as Binhai New Area, is a district of Tianjin. The Yujiapu Financial District features a skyline of supertall buildings that are still underoccupied, making the development of a financial hub a work in progress.
Xincheng
Town
Xincheng is a town in Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China. Xincheng is situated 5 km southwest of Tanggu.
Beitang Subdistrict
Town
Beitang, alternately known as Pei-t'ang and Pehtang, is a subdistrict of the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, near the mouth of the Hai River. As of 2011, it administered 2 residential communities and 4 villages. Beitang Subdistrict is situated 10 km northeast of Tanggu.
Tanggu
- Categories: district of China and former administrative territorial entity
- Location: Tianjin Municipality, Tianjin, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Tanggu” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tanggu Barrutia”
- Bulgarian: “Тангу”
- Cebuano: “Tanggu”
- Chinese: “塘沽”
- Chinese: “塘沽区”
- Chinese: “塘沽區”
- Chinese: “塘沽地区”
- Chinese: “塘沽城区”
- Dutch: “Tanggu District”
- French: “district de Tanggu”
- French: “District de Tanggu”
- French: “Tanggu”
- German: “Tanggu”
- Japanese: “タンクー”
- Japanese: “塘沽”
- Japanese: “塘沽区”
- Korean: “탕구 구”
- Korean: “탕구구”
- Malagasy: “Tanggu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanggu”
- Norwegian: “Tanggu”
- Persian: “بخش تانگژو”
- Polish: “Tanggu”
- Russian: “Танго”
- Russian: “Тангу”
- Serbian: “Тангу”
- Spanish: “Tanggu”
- Swedish: “Tanggu”
- Ukrainian: “Тангу”
- Vietnamese: “Đường Cô”
- Welsh: “Ardal Tanggu”
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