port town in English

seaside city in which there is a port

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1. The port town of Xai-Xai, Mozambique is on the river near the mouth.

2. Banjarmasin now is preparing various areas covering: Administration, commerce, port town, education and tourism.

3. Al-ʿAqabah, also spelled Aqaba or Akaba, Latin Aelana, port town, extreme southwestern Jordan

4. Bouillabaisse is a classic French dish from southern France, in particular, of the port town Marseille

5. Beira Beira is a port town in Mozambique.Beira is the second largest city in Mozambique and capital of the Sofala Province

6. Aden, a port town in modern day Yemen, had once been a crucial anti-piracy station protecting lucrative shipping routes to British controlled India.

7. As a result, Niigata prospered as a port town, serving as a port of call for Japanese trade ships traversing the Sea of Japan.

8. At the end of the war, Madagascar ceded the northern port town of Antsiranana (Diego Suarez) to France and paid 560,000 francs to Lambert's heirs.

9. In a busy café in the port town of Zihuatanejo, a Witness invited two foreigners to have a seat at her table, as the café was full.

10. The city of Babylon, whose ruins are located in present-day Iraq, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port town on the Euphrates River

11. Amontillados, then, are simply finos (or manzanillas, as finos are known if they come from the port town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda) that have outlived the flor and gained additional oxidative

12. From Booklist Warner, one of the new "Scottish beat" writers like Irvine Welsh ( Trainspotting ), forcefully evokes the dreary life in a northern Scotland port town of Morvern Callar, whose name means "quieter silence" in Scottish.

13. Colombia's fourth-largest city, the hardworking port town of Barranquilla is located on the delta of the massive Río Magdalena and laid out in a tangled ribbon along mangroves and the Caribbean Sea, sweltering and hustling in …

14. These small compact women, who remind me of my own grandmothers years ago, are not, as one might expect, from Silhanoukville nor are they even Cambodian. I overhear them talking among themselves in Viet, in the heavy, flat southern accent that hangs well in the humid air. When I inquire about their “que” (home village), most gestured eastward to Chau Doc, a port town on the Cambodian border. They have left home and journeyed to a neighboring country for the small privilege of selling tidbits of food from their yoke-baskets. For a moment, I wonder unreasonably if Bao, my long-lost childhood friend might be among them—a reflex or, perhaps, an affliction of trauma. So, day after day, for weeks on end, I gravitate to beach to eat grilled squids and to hear their stories.