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Line 5 (Nanning Metro)

Nanning Rail Transit line

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ26262004 ↗
Source-derived summary

Line 5 of the Nanning Metro is a rapid transit line in Nanning which opened on 16 December 2021. The line is 20.2 km long with 17 stations and uses driverless 6-car Type B trains.

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The public source identifies “Line 5 (Nanning Metro)” as nanning Rail Transit line. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Line, Nanning and Metro.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Line, Nanning and Metro providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q26262004. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Line 5 (Nanning Metro)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.