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Anwen
Chongqing, China · Asia
About Anwen
Anwen sits on the route: 15 minutes from Ganshui.
Anwen is in Chongqing, China, with about 31,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ganshui, about 8 km away.
Anwen is a Welsh feminine name. Notable bearers of the name are:
Anwen Williams, fictional character in the BBC series Torchwood (daughter of Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams)
Anwen Keeling (born 1976), Australian painter
Anwen Muston, British Labour Party politician
It is not a very common first name, though neither isRead more
it rare. However, Anwen is popularly confused with "Arwen", a name created by the author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his novel The Lord of the Rings, and modelled on the etymology and sound patterns of Welsh.
The origins of Anwen are somewhat unclear, though the -wen ending is known to represent the mutated form of the adjective gwen (note: the G in gwen is dropped in a mutation of the word as the word follows a consonant), which is the feminine form of gwyn, used to mean "white" as well as "blessed". There are many other dithematic -wen names in use in Wales today, some examples being:
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Anwen is in Chongqing, China, about 8 km from Ganshui.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 30,553
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Chongqing
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 28.6800, 106.7565
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