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Ningyuan

Syllables: Ning·yuan

Ningyuan proper noun: a county of Yongzhou, Hunan, China.

Proper noun

Ningyuan

  1. A county of Yongzhou, Hunan, China.
    • The attack occurred early Wednesday morning at Baijiaping Township Wanquan Elementary School in Ningyuan County, Hunan Province. A brief statement issued by Ningyuan County on its official WeChat social media account said that the two injured students had been taken to a hospital. Reached by...2019 April 3, Amy Qin, “Knife Attack at Chinese Elementary School Leaves Two Children Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2019, Asia Pacific

Origin of Ningyuan

From Mandarin 寧遠 /宁远 (Níngyuǎn).

Questions about Ningyuan

What does Ningyuan mean?
Ningyuan means a county of Yongzhou, Hunan, China.
What part of speech is Ningyuan?
Ningyuan is a proper noun.

Words near Ningyuan in the dictionary

  1. Ningwu
  2. Ningxia
  3. Ningxiang
  4. Ningyang
  5. ningyoite
  6. Ningyuan
  7. Ninh
  8. Ninh Bình
  9. Ninh Thuận
  10. Ninhs
  11. Ninhursag

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