Jartai

Proper noun

Jartai

1. A town in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
   • Here the Alxa Platform Uplift needs a special explanation. Some Chinese geologists consider that it is not a platform but a part of a Paleozoic geosyncline. Here we still believe that it represents a platform uplift. This is supported by the following lines of evidence:[...](4) there occurs the...1987, “Brief Description of the Main Tectonic Units of China”, in Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51
   • Going to Jartai by Mistake
   • [...]At last, we saw lights up ahead and stopped our car to make inquiries. We were told that in fact this was not Linhe but Jartai, a name entirely unfamiliar to us.[...]
   • Jartai, the site of China's first mechanized saltworks, is not a big town, but all its hotels were packed with tourists.1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, edited by Tu Nai Hsien, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101, 102
2. A lake in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
   • In Alashan there are salt lakes here and there, Charatai-Dabasu being 33 miles round, and encrusted with a layer of fine salt, 2 to 6 ft. thick.[1920, “GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL”, in G. W. Prothero, editor, Mongolia (Handbooks Prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office), number 68, London: His...
   • Notable lakes in the Mongolian land are[...]These are salt lakes. Freshwater ones are the Charatai Dabuson in Alashan and the Dabasana Nor in the Ortus country.[1927, Henry H. Howorth, “A GENERAL VIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND BIOLOGY OF CENTRAL ASIA”, in History of the Mongols, volume IV, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 12