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Erenhot

/ˈɛɹɪnhɒt/

Erenhot proper noun: a county-level city of Xilingol, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Erenhot

  1. A county-level city of Xilingol, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • At the border town of Erenhot, the people working beside the track look up and smile as the train enters China and begin to applaud.1988 March, Paul Theroux, “China Passage”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 173, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298
    • Cheng would have to stop him further down in the Gobi’s dunes around the railhead of Erenhot, and so it was to Erenhot, the railhead on the border of China’s Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, that many of the reserves from Beijing’s Sixty-fifth Army Group were now being sent.1993, Ian Slater, WWIII: Asian Front (Fiction), Fawcett Gold Medal Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 218

Synonyms of Erenhot

Origin of Erenhot

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (eriyee qota) / Эрээн хот (Ereen xot).

Questions about Erenhot

What does Erenhot mean?
Erenhot means a county-level city of Xilingol, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Erenhot?
Erenhot is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Erenhot?
Erenhot is pronounced /ˈɛɹɪnhɒt/.

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