city in Hebei province, NE China, near Tianjin: pop. 1,500,000
See Tangshan in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(tängˈshänˈ, dängˈ-)
A city of northeast China east-southeast of Beijing. It was devastated in 1976 by a massive earthquake in which an estimated 242,000 people were killed. Population: 1,270,000.