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Yongning

Syllables: Yong·ning/jɔŋ.nɪŋ/

Yongning proper noun: a county of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yongning

  1. A county of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119
    • The next day we went to visit a village named Najiahu in Yongning County, which is located to the south of Yinchuan. The inhabitants here are nearly all Muslims.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, page 82, column 2

Proper noun (2)

Yongning

  1. A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China, formerly a county.
    • In Yungning County, last winter the commercial departments worked out plans for material supplies to support agriculture this spring.[1971 March 19 [1971 March 16], “Kwangsi Commercial Workers Support Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 54, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced...
    • The discovery had been made in 1960 in the Kwangsi Province of South West China; the plants were growing under forest in a valley in the Yungning County, at an altitude of 75-120 metres. The position is approximately Latitude 20 Degrees North and Longitude 108 Degrees East. This places it close to...[1984, Tom Durrant, “The Yellow Camellias”, in Milton H. Brown, editor, The American Camellia Yearbook 1984, Fort Valley, Georgia: American Camellia Society, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130

Origin of Yongning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永寧 /永宁 (Yǒngníng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邕寧 /邕宁 (Yōngníng).

Questions about Yongning

What does Yongning mean?
Yongning means a county of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Yongning?
Yongning is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yongning?
Yongning is pronounced /jɔŋ.nɪŋ/.

Words near Yongning in the dictionary

  1. Yongji
  2. Yongjia
  3. Yongjing
  4. Yonglong
  5. Yongnian
  6. Yongning
  7. Yongqing
  8. Yongs
  9. Yongsan
  10. Yongshan
  11. Yongsheng

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