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Hinggan

Hinggan proper noun: a league in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.

Proper noun

Hinggan

  1. A league in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
    • The development of animal husbandry fails to follow the animal husbandry—majoring principles determined by production policy and thereby a conclusion is easily drawn that the agricultural structure in Hinggan League before is unrational.1990, Yang Meihua, Gu Wei, “Application study on remote sensing climatic interpretation in decision analysis of grassland agricultural structure in Hinggan League”, in Yang Hanxi, editor, Proceedings...
    • “There are at least tens of thousands of people protesting across Inner Mongolia,” said Baatar, a 27-year-old herder in the Hinggan League area who refused to give his name because of security concerns.
    • As of Tuesday, several bilingual boarding schools in Hinggan League and nearby Tongliao city were surrounded by hundreds of paramilitary police to prevent children who were already enrolled from leaving, Baatar added.2020 September 1, “China’s ethnic Mongolians protest Mandarin curriculum in schools”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020

Origin of Hinggan

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠢᠩᠭ᠋ᠠᠨ (qinggan).

Questions about Hinggan

What does Hinggan mean?
Hinggan means a league in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
What part of speech is Hinggan?
Hinggan is a proper noun.

Words near Hinggan in the dictionary

  1. hinges
  2. hinges on
  3. hinges upon
  4. hingewise
  5. hingey
  6. Hinggan
  7. Hingham
  8. Hinghwa
  9. hinging
  10. hinging on
  11. hinging upon

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