Greater Khingan en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- khĭng-gän′
Meanings
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A mountain range in Manchuria, China.
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.
2001 July 8, Geoffrey Hosking, “"Russia and the Russians: A History"”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023, First Chapter:The Company’s current facility is located in Tahe County, Heilongjiang Province, near the Greater Khingan Range, in close proximity to its suppliers.
2022 January 31, “CN Energy’s Subsidiary Completes New Manufacturing Facility”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:"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."
[1984 December, Gloria Vitanza Basile, chapter 26, in The Sting of the Scorpion (Global 2000 Trilogy), volume III (Fiction), New York: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 463, 464: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.
2019 February 24, Ben Blanchard, Hou Xiangming, “China reports two new African swine fever outbreaks”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 May 2024, ワールド:
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yue 大興安嶺 /大兴安岭 (mountain range) · cmn 大興安嶺 /大兴安岭 (mountain range)