Tanggu

• (dated) Tangku
• (from Wade–Giles) T'ang-ku

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 塘沽 (Tánggū).

Tanggu

1. A subdistrict of Binhai district, Tianjin, China, on Bohai Bay; former district of Tianjin, China.
   • 2015 August 14, Tiezzi, Shannon, “The Tianjin Explosion, As Chronicled on Chinese Social Media”, in The Diplomat‎, archived from the original on 27 October 2015:

     And the discussion on China’s social media sphere isn’t done yet. On the evening of August 13, the top-trending hashtag on Sina Weibo was “#塘沽爆炸真相#” – “Tanggu [the explosion’s location in the Binhai district] explosion truth.”