Ningxia

See also: Níngxià

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nɪŋˈʃjɑː/

Proper noun

Ningxia

  1. A Hui autonomous region in China. Official name: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Capital: Yinchuan.
    • 1993, Barnett, A. Doak, “Han and Hui: Ningxia”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change‎, 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.
    • 2019 September 10, “China reports new African swine fever case in Ningxia”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Health News:
      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.

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References
  1. Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, 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)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ningxia f

  1. Ningxia (an autonomous region of China)
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