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Hulunbuir

Hulunbuir proper noun: a prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Hulunbuir

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • Before it disappeared from the scene, the Tsarist government had effected two slight alterations in the previous agreements, one of which would more accurately define the territorial limits of Outer Mongolia, and the other determine the status of Hulunbuir (Mongolian Barga), which was adjacent to...1949, Michel N. Pavlovsky, Chinese-Russian Relations, New York: Philosophical Library, →OCLC, page 65
    • Hailar is the former capital of the Huna League and since 1954 administrative center of the Hulunbuir League.1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239
    Synonyms:
    Hulunbeier

Examples of Hulunbuir in a sentence

  • They were joined by Inner Mongolian dissidents and those of Hulunbuir.1976, Sow-Theng Leong, Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1926, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
  • A high school student in the city of Hulunbuir said students rushed out of their school on Tuesday and destroyed a fence before paramilitary police swarmed in and tried to return them to class.2020 September 3, Huizhong Wu, “Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy”, in AP News, archived from the original on 03...

Synonyms of Hulunbuir

  • Hulunbeier

Forms of Hulunbuir

alternative formHulun Buir

Origin of Hulunbuir

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠥᠯᠥᠨ ᠪᠤᠢᠷ (kölön buir), from Hulun Lake and Buir Lake.

Questions about Hulunbuir

What does Hulunbuir mean?
Hulunbuir means a prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
How do you use Hulunbuir in a sentence?
They were joined by Inner Mongolian dissidents and those of Hulunbuir.
What part of speech is Hulunbuir?
Hulunbuir is a proper noun.

Words near Hulunbuir in the dictionary

  1. Hulu Langat
  2. hulubalang
  3. hulubalangs
  4. Hulubești
  5. Huludao
  6. Hulunbuir
  7. huluppu tree
  8. huluppu trees
  9. hulusi
  10. Hulutao
  11. hulver

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