Mangnai
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Proper noun
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- A county-level city in Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
- 2006, Colin Thubron, “The Southern Road”, in Shadow of the Silk Road, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 97:
- The border of the great north-west province of Xinjiang, a region three times the size of France, lay at the mining town of Mangnai, fifty miles beyond where I was sleeping. This was an old, feared frontierland - High Tartary or Chinese Turkestan - one sixth of all China now, which barged up against Central Asia. But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up.
- 2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes[1], 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
- A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai.
- 2019 March 4, Laurie Chen, “China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet”, in South China Morning Post[2], archived from the original on 03 March 2019, Science:
- Spanning 32 hectares (80 acres), the base is situated 60km (37 miles) from the town of Lenghu near the upper reaches of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, an arid desert region dubbed “the place on Earth that is most unlike being on Earth”, according to camp manager Gao Junling.[...]
But the “Mars village” was originally proposed by the local government in 2017 as a cultural and educational centre for science, popular science and science fiction, according to Ma Wenwu, a member of the Mangnai city committee, which oversees Lenghu.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mangnai.