Buir Lake

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Buir Lake

  1. A lake on the border between Dornod, Mongolia and New Barag Right Banner, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • 1935 October 20, Mark J. Ginsbourg, “Tokyo Faces Moscow At Mongolian Border”, in The Washington Post, number 21,675, sourced from Shanghai, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 8:
      The third Japanese move was the opening of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian talks in Manchouli for the settlement of the Buir Lake clash between Manchurian and Mongolian troops last January.
    • 2007, Gauri Shankar Gupta, “Geography and Nature”, in Padma Pegu, editor, Mongolia: The Land of Blue Skies[2], Lustre Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:
      Other important lakes of Mongolia include Khyargas Lake in Hovd aimag (1,407 square kilometres), Buir Lake in Dornod aimag (615 square kilometres), and Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake in Arhangal aimag (61 square kilometres).

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Bor Nor or Buir Nor”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 249, column 3

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