Baisha

See also: báishā

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Etymology

From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally white sand).

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Baisha

  1. A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China
  2. A town in Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
  3. A town in Hanjiang district, Putian, Fujian, China
  4. A town in Xinluo district, Longyan, Fujian, China
  5. A town in Jishui, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
  6. A town in Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
  7. A town in Yichuan, Luoyang, Henan, China
  8. A town in Yangxin, Huangshi, Hubei, China
  9. A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China
  10. A town in Changning, Hengyang, Hunan, China
  11. A town in Xinning, Shaoyang, Hunan, China
  12. A town in Luxi, Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China
  13. A town in Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
  14. A town in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
  15. A town in Yingde, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
  16. A town in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China
  17. A town in Hepu, Beihai, Guangxi, China
  18. A town in Guiping, Guigang, Guangxi, China
  19. A town in Fuchuan, Hezhou, Guangxi, China
  20. A town in Liujiang district, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China
  21. A town in Jiangjin district, Chongqing, China
  22. A town in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, China
  23. A town in Shuangliu district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  24. A town in Hejiang, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
  25. A town in Wanyuan, Dazhou, Sichuan, China
  26. A town in Shiqian, Tongren, Guizhou, China
  27. A town in Qingshui, Tianshui, Gansu, China
  28. A town in Yulong, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
  29. An island in Penghu County, Taiwan
  30. A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan
    • 1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 3:
      Until a few years ago, it was necessary to take a ferry to travel from one of the three to another, but the three big islands plus several smaller ones in between are today all interconnected by a vast network of bridges. The longest of these, connecting Baisha with Yuweng, is almost two miles in length and is the longest ocean bridge in the Far East.
    • 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:
      The magnificent Tongliang Banyan, thought to be more than 200 years old, forms a huge and glorious canopy over the courtyard of Baoan Temple in the village of Tongliang, on Baisha's western tip.
    • 2019 September 12, Yu-ching Liu, William Hetherington, “Penghu students create musical art from ocean trash”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2019, Taiwan News, page 4:
      While recycling plastic and other debris that washes up on beaches and turning them into art has become a trend in the county, the students at Niaoyu Elementary School in Baisha Township’s (白沙) Niaoyu Islet (鳥嶼) are the first to create a musical instrument out of trash.
  31. A township in Pu'an, Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou, China
  32. A subdistrict of Jiangbei district, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
  33. A subdistrict of Sanyuan district, Sanming, Fujian, China
  34. A subdistrict of Pengjiang district, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
  35. A subdistrict of Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China
  36. A subdistrict of Meilan district, Haikou, Hainan, China

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