Hinggan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠢᠩᠭ᠋ᠠᠨ (kiŋɣan).

Proper noun

Hinggan

1. A league in Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • 2020 September 1, “China’s ethnic Mongolians protest Mandarin curriculum in schools”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 October 2020‎^[2]:

     “There are at least tens of thousands of people protesting across Inner Mongolia,” said Baatar, a 27-year-old herder in the Hinggan League area who refused to give his name because of security concerns.
     As of Tuesday, several bilingual boarding schools in Hinggan League and nearby Tongliao city were surrounded by hundreds of paramilitary police to prevent children who were already enrolled from leaving, Baatar added.

   • 2022 August 16, Organizing Committee of the 3rd Alumni Economic Forum, “The 3rd Alumni Economic Forum Opens in Arxan in Inner Mongolia”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎^[3], archived from the original on 16 August 2022‎^[4]:

     On August 13, the 3rd Alumni Economic Forum opened in Arxan, Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an expression of friendship among Hubei merchants and alumni, and a dialogue about new rural development.
     With the theme of “Alumni Economy: a Dialogue between Rural Areas and Development”, the forum invited over 300 famous alumni entrepreneurs and representatives of Hubei merchants to Arxan, to boost rural revitalization by means of the alumni economy and facilitate the high-quality development of Hinggan League, according to the Organizing Committee of the 3rd Alumni Economic Forum.

Translations

league

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興安／兴安 (zh) (Xīng'ān), 興安／兴安 (zh) (Xīng'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hinggan Meng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1286, column 3