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Mangnai

Mangnai proper noun: a county-level city of Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.

Proper noun

Mangnai

  1. A county-level city of Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
    • The border of the great north-west province of Xinjiang, a region three times the size of France, lay at the mining town of Mangnai, fifty miles beyond where I was sleeping. This was an old, feared frontierland - High Tartary or Chinese Turkestan - one sixth of all China now, which barged up...2006, Colin Thubron, “The Southern Road”, in Shadow of the Silk Road, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 97
    • A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai.2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes, 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143

Questions about Mangnai

What does Mangnai mean?
Mangnai means a county-level city of Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
What part of speech is Mangnai?
Mangnai is a proper noun.

Words near Mangnai in the dictionary

  1. manglings
  2. Manglish
  3. Mangloy
  4. mangnae
  5. mangnaes
  6. Mangnai
  7. mango
  8. mango bird
  9. mango birds
  10. mango fish
  11. mango flies

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