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Ningling

Ningling proper noun: a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Ningling

  1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
    • Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished. The administrative area of[...] the former Ningling county is transferred to Chu (7168) County.1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9
    • In 2006, after his son died, Mr Zhou attempted to sue the hospital, but the court wouldn’t take up his case. In Ningling county, in Henan, over 100 people were recently found to have been infected via blood transfusion.2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, “Dust and Heat: Black Mines in the Yellow River Region”, in Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101

Forms of Ningling

alternative formNing-ling

Origin of Ningling

From Mandarin 寧陵 /宁陵.

Questions about Ningling

What does Ningling mean?
Ningling means a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Ningling?
Ningling is a proper noun.

Words near Ningling in the dictionary

  1. Ningguta
  2. Ninghe
  3. Ninghsia
  4. Ningjiang
  5. Ninglang
  6. Ningling
  7. Ningming
  8. ningnanmycin
  9. Ningol Chakkouba
  10. Ningombam
  11. Ningpo

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