Bayannur
English
Etymology
From Mongolian ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (bayannaɣur').
Proper noun
Bayannur
- A prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
- 1982 January, “Fighting Back the Deserts”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 40:
- “The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.
- 1985, Leeming, Frank, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, LCCN 83-25617, OCLC 1087938030, OL 3182902M, page 148:
- A 'commodity grain base' of at least regional significance is reported from the irrigated 'inland delta' area of the Bayannur Meng Banner[sic – meaning League], on the Yellow River west of Baotou, centred on Linhe and Wuyuan (People's Daily, 9 July 1979; Fig. 10.1).
- 2020 July 7, “Bubonic plague case reported in China's Inner Mongolia”, in Stars and Stripes, volume 79, number 57, OCLC 1035076549, page 13:
- Authorities in the Bayannur district raised the plague warning Sunday, ordered residents not to hunt wild animals such as marmots and to send anyone with fever or showing other possible signs of infection for treatment.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bayannur.
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Translations
prefecture-level city
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