Whampoa

Whampoa

Whampoa is an Anglicisation of the Chinese "Huangpu" (黃浦 or 黄埔) and may refer to:
* Whampoa, Guangzhou, an area in Guangzhou. See Huangpu District, Guangzhou
* Whampoa Military Academy
* Hutchison Whampoa
* Whampoa Garden housing estate, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
* Whampoa Single Member Constituency, Singapore, a former constituency now part of the Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency
* Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock
* Treaty of Whampoa (1844)

Same characters in Chinese:
* Huangpu District, Shanghai, the People's Republic of China
* Whampoa River (Huangpu River) in Shanghai

See also Huangpu, for places that have the same spelling but different Chinese characters.


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