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Inner Mongolia

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Etymology

From inner (near, seen from China proper) + Mongolia.

Definitions

  1. An autonomous region of China, south of Mongolia, with closely related native Mongolian…

    An autonomous region of China, south of Mongolia, with closely related native Mongolian population, mostly north of the Great Wall. Capital: Hohhot.

    • Inner Mongolia has no lakes of any importance, and those of the Kalkas are small; but Kobdo is a country of lakes, as well as of mountains.
    • The twenty-four tribes, or Aimaks, in Inner Mongolia constitute forty-nine standards or Khochoun,—Ke, in Chinese.

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