Greater Khingan

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: khǐng-gänʹ[1]

Proper noun

Greater Khingan

  1. A mountain range in Manchuria, China.
    • [1984 December, Gloria Vitanza Basile, chapter 26, in The Sting of the Scorpion (Global 2000 Trilogy)‎[2], volume III (Fiction), New York: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 463, 464:
      "I swear the real Jonathan Marl is miles away in the Great Khingan Range in the gulag at Pokotu." […]
      "What about Jonathan?"
      "That he was being held prisoner in Manchuria, Pokotu in the Great Khingan Range to be exact."      ]
    • 2001 July 8, Geoffrey Hosking, “"Russia and the Russians: A History"”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 March 2023, First Chapter‎[4]:
      The north Eurasian plain is not only Russia's geographical setting, but also her fate. From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge expanse of flat, open territory dominates the Eurasian continent.
    • 2019 February 24, Ben Blanchard, Hou Xiangming, “China reports two new African swine fever outbreaks”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters‎[5], archived from the original on 25 May 2024, ワールド‎[6]:
      The second outbreak is in the remote Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia, where 210 of the 222 wild boar raised on the farm died, the ministry said in a separate statement. The rest have been slaughtered, it said.
    • 2022 January 31, “CN Energy’s Subsidiary Completes New Manufacturing Facility”, in AP News‎[7], archived from the original on 30 May 2022‎[8]:
      The Company’s current facility is located in Tahe County, Heilongjiang Province, near the Greater Khingan Range, in close proximity to its suppliers.

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  1. ^ cf. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Khingan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 938, column 3

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