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Ejin

Ejin proper noun: a banner in Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.

Proper noun

Ejin

  1. A banner in Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
    • The raiders cut the power supply and smashed surveillance equipment before pepper-spraying the workers, putting bags over their heads and threatening to beat them to death if they didn’t comply, according to Chen Tiejun, the deputy magistrate of Ejin Banner, a county bordering Gansu province.2015 December 6, Laura Zhou, “Masked raiders bulldoze Chinese border outpost and dump stuff in Gobi Desert”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2015...
    • On Monday, disease-hit Erenhot in Inner Mongolia banned travel in and out of the city and ordered residents to stay at home, while an outbreak in Ejin county prompted authorities earlier this week to shutter tourist sites and restrict travel.2021 October 22, “Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found”, in France 24, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021
    Synonyms:
    Ejina

Examples of Ejin in a sentence

  • State news outlets have reported that roughly 10,000 tourists are trapped in Ejin Banner, a region of Inner Mongolia, after the emergence of cases led to a lockdown.2021 October 27, Vivian Wang, “Why China Is the World’s Last ‘Zero Covid’ Holdout”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...
  • He was among more than 9,000 tourists who became trapped in Ejin Banner, a remote part of China’s Inner Mongolia region that is in the Gobi.2021 November 10, Huizhong Wu, “As many try living with virus, China keeps up zero tolerance”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10...

Synonyms of Ejin

  • Ejina

Origin of Ejin

From Mongolian ᠡᠵᠡᠨ (eǰen-).

Phrases with Ejin

Questions about Ejin

What does Ejin mean?
Ejin means a banner in Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
How do you use Ejin in a sentence?
State news outlets have reported that roughly 10,000 tourists are trapped in Ejin Banner, a region of Inner Mongolia, after the emergence of cases led to a lockdown.
What part of speech is Ejin?
Ejin is a proper noun.

Words near Ejin in the dictionary

  1. ejidal
  2. ejidatario
  3. ejidatarios
  4. ejido
  5. ejidos
  6. Ejin
  7. Ejin Horo
  8. Ejiofor
  9. ejit
  10. ejjeh
  11. EJK

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