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Chongqing

Chongqing
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About Chongqing

Chongqing, previously romanized as Chungking, is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. It is the only direct-administered municipality located deep inland. The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria, which includes several disjunct urban areas in addition to Chongqing proper. Due to its classification, the municipality of Chongqing is the largest city proper in the world by population, though it is not the most populous urban area.

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There was a soap opera called Mountain City Bang Bang Men. There's also a drinking game — if you're a student in Chongqing, you might play this game where basically whenever you see one of these guys, you drink. People are so much more sober now.

from No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 at 00:27:16 · read transcript

Other times Chongqing came up

  1. How do I know this place? It's because it has my favorite rail station in, so a metro station, a train station in Chongqing, which is they have them very high up, kind of like monorails that go around through the city. One particular path that it needed to take was going to be in the exact spot where they were building a residential building, which was 19 floors high.

    No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen

  2. We discussed this, and we decide, if you shouted bang-bang as an ignorant English person, then they'd probably know what you meant. It's the name for these stickmen, so they're people who carry sticks around, And they were extremely populous in like up until the early 2000s really in Chongqing and they're porters. The reason that they remained in that city is because the terrain is very hilly.

    No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen

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