nanjing(n = noun.location) nanking - a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s;
is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center
is a part of cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china

   a former capital of China. [WordNet 1.5]