Xianshuigu, formerly known as Seen-shwuy Kow,
["China" in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 9th ed., Vol. V, 1878.] is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Jinnan District
Jinnan District (), formerly Nanjiao District () is a district of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, located on the western bank of the lower reaches of the Hai River The name of the district literally means "South Tianjin" or "South of Tianjin ...
,
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
, People's Republic of China.
History
Xianshuigu is recorded as having been a coastal town on the
Bay of Bohai
Bohai Bay () is one of the three major bays of the Bohai Sea, the northwestern and innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. It is bounded by the coastlines of eastern Hebei province (Tangshan and Cangzhou), Tianjin municipality and northern Shando ...
around AD 500 but was inland by the mid-19th century.
[
]
References
Towns in Tianjin
{{Tianjin-geo-stub