Whampoa

Anglicization of Cantonese 黃埔／黄埔 (wong4 bou3).

Whampoa

1. Synonym of Huangpu (Guangzhou)
   • 1965, R. Kay Gresswell; Anthony Huxley, editors, Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes‎, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 248:

     River traffic is important on the Si, although navigation is obstructed at many points by rapids and shallows. Ships of 10,000 tons call at Whampoa, Canton’s outer port, and vessels of 9-foot draft can travel upriver to Wuchow, the limit for ocean-going ships. Junks reach far into Kwangsi, and the Yuh is navigable for many months right up to Poseh on the Yunnan border, in spite of the difficult rapids between Kweiping and Nanning.

   • 2004, David Crystal, editor, The Penguin Encyclopedia‎, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 901:

     Lin Biao or Lin Piao [lin byow] (1907-71) Chinese military leader, born in Huang-kang, EC China. He trained at Whampoa military academy in 1926, joined the Communists, and became a marshal of the Red Army.

2. An area in Hung Hom, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.