Chongqing
/tʃʊŋˈtʃɪŋ/(亦作Chungking)
- a former city in Sichuan province in central China and now a municipality directly under the Central Government; pop. 4,776, 000 (est. 2006). It was the capital of China from 1938 to 1946.重庆（原中国中部四川省城市, 现为直辖市, 2006年估计人口4,776, 000,1938-1946年为陪都）。