Holingol

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Holingol

1. A county-level city in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 2015 April 7, Simon Denyer, “In China’s Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 08, 2015, Asia & Pacific‎^[2]:

     A few years after the smelter opened, herders in the area said that their sheep began falling sick, with jaws so painful that they could not eat. Soon, thousands of their animals had died. When they complained, the government simply arrested five of their leaders and forced the others to resettle in the nearby city of Holingol, demolishing their original homes. […]
     In Inner Mongolia’s Holingol, the Huomei Hongjun factory is one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world. I

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霍林郭勒 (zh) (Huòlínguōlè)

• Japanese: ホーリンゴル (Hōringoru)
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᠯᡳᠨ
  ᡤᠣᠣᠯ (holin gool)
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠣᠯᠢᠠ
  ᠭᠣᠤᠯ (qoolia ɣoul)