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A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
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1922 Shantou typhoon
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Shantou
Prefecture-level city in Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census and an administrative area of 2,248.39 square kilometres (868.11 sq mi).…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Mainland period of the Republic of China
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