Huhehot
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: ho͞oʹhā-hōtʹ
Proper noun edit
Huhehot
- Alternative form of Hohhot
- 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 235:
- The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.
- 1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960[2], Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, page 449:
- In October 1958 a six-province Conference on Sand Dune Control was convened at Huhehot, capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. At this conference the Soviet scientists reported that the Soviet Academy of Sciences was planning to carry out a desert control project in Soviet central Asia from 1959 to 1965.
- 1972, Oton Ambroz, Realignment of World Power: The Russo-Chinese Schism Under the Impact of Mao Tse-Tung's Last Revolution[3], volume II, New York: Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers, Inc., page 155:
- When Peking red guards occupied government buildings in Huhehot, Ulanfu tried to compromise, then he created his own revolutionary organizations, and finally suspended the cultural revolution. He was accused of setting up an “independent kingdom” at the Gobi desert frontiers.
Further reading edit
- “Huhehot”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Huhehot, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Huhehot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.