Sungari

/ ˈsʊŋɡərɪ /

noun

1. another name for the Songhua

Example Sentences

HARBIN, or Kharbin, town of Manchuria, on the right bank of the river Sungari.

From Project Gutenberg

By conventional usage a relatively small area on the east side of the Great Khingan, between the upper waters of the Sungari and the upper waters of the Liao-ho, is also reckoned to belong to the Gobi.

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Their chief settlements are on the right bank of the Amur and along the Sungari and Usuri rivers.

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Later, the Chinese chronicles mention the U-ki or Mo-ho, a warlike people of the Sungari valley and surrounding uplands, who in the 7th century founded the kingdom of Pu-haī, overthrown in 925 by the Khitans of the Lower Sungari below its Noni confluence, who were themselves Tunguses and according to some Chinese authorities the direct ancestors of the Manchus.

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The Sungari is U.S.-owned, and the Sea Isle City is one of eleven Kuwaiti tankers now flying the American flag.

From Time Magazine Archive