{{Infobox royalty |image = |name = Nan Geng<br/>南庚 |family_name = Zi (子) |clan_name = |given_name = Geng (更) |predecessor = Zu Ding |successor = Yang Jia |title = King of Shang dynasty |reign = |temple name = |posthumous name = Nan Geng (南庚) }}
'''Nan Geng''' ({{zh|南庚}}), personal name Zi Geng, was a king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.
== Records == In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was listed by Sima Qian as the seventeenth Shang king, succeeding his cousin Zu Ding. He was enthroned in the year of Bingchen ({{lang|zh|丙辰}}) with Bi ({{lang|zh|庇}}) as his capital. In the third year of his reign he moved his capital to Yan ({{lang|zh|奄}}). He ruled for about 29 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Nan Geng and was succeeded by his cousin's son Yang Jia.<ref name="BaiShouyi">{{cite book |last=Bai |first=Shouyi |title=An Outline History of China |year=2002 |publisher=Foreign Language Press |location=Beijing |isbn=7-119-02347-0}}</ref><ref name="chinaKnowledge">{{cite web |url =http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html |title = The Shang Dynasty Rulers |access-date = August 7, 2007 |publisher = China Knowledge }}</ref><ref name="uniIndiana">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |title=Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship |access-date=August 7, 2007 |publisher=Indiana University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409215121/http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the sixteenth Shang king.<ref name="chinaKnowledge" /><ref name="uniIndiana" />
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