Ningxia
See also: Níngxià
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ningxia
- A Hui autonomous region in China. Official name: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Capital: Yinchuan. [from late 20th c.]
- 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, “Land and Population”, in Encyclopedia of China Today[2], Eurasia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:
- In 1955, the trans-Mongolian railroad was inaugurated and in 1958 the Baotou line was extended to Lanzhou in Gansu, passing through Ningxia.
- 1993, A. Doak Barnett, “Han and Hui: Ningxia”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change[3], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:
- FROM Baotou, China’s interior trunk line goes west and then south to one of China’s main concentrations of Muslims, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. My train left Baotou at 9:16 A.M., and the 317-mile trip took slightly over 10 hours; we arrived at 7:30 P.M., just 19 minutes late, at Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan.
- 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle[4], archived from the original on 10 August 2018, Asia[5]:
- Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.
- 2019 September 10, Dominique Patton, “China reports new African swine fever case in Ningxia”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters[6], archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Health News[7]:
- China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported a new case of African swine fever on a farm in the northwestern region of Ningxia on Tuesday.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ningxia.
Synonyms edit
- (abbreviation) NHAR
Translations edit
Hui autonomous region of China
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See also edit
| Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang |
| Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang |
| Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing |
| Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau |
References edit
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 359:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region (Ning-hsia Hui Tu-chih Ch'ü, Ningxia Hui Zizhi Qu)
Further reading edit
- “Ningxia”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Ningxia, Ninghsia, Ning-hsia, Ningsia at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Ningxia Huizu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Ningxia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Ningxia” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1: “The name sometimes appears as Ninghsia Hui; also known as Ning.”
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Proper noun edit
Ningxia f
- Ningxia (an autonomous region of China)