inner (near, seen fromChina proper) +Mongolia

InnerMongolia

2. Anautonomous region ofChina, south ofMongolia, with closely related nativeMongolian population, mostly north of theGreat Wall. Capital:Hohhot.
   • 1832 August, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too”, inThe Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume 1, number 4,Canton,page120:

     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.

   • 1834,Charles Gutzlaff,A Sketch of Chinese History‎^[2], volume 1,page12:

     The twenty-four tribes, or Aimaks, inInner Mongolia constitute forty-nine standards or Khochoun,—Ke, in Chinese.

   • 1973 February 4, “Size of Inner Mongolia reduced”, inFree China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIV, number 5, Taipei,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 3:

     The Chinese Communist regime has drastically reduced the size ofInner Mongolia and greatly boosted Chinese immigration there in an effort to reduce the Russian threat on the Mongolian border.[…]
     With the heavy concentration of Soviet troops along the borders ofInner Mongolia, Peiping fears that the Mongolians might rise to pave the way for a Russian invasion, the report said.
     By cutting upInner Mongolia and reducing the Mongolian population, the Chinese Communists hope to make their tight control of the Mongolians easier in face of the Russian threat, the report said.

   • 2016 January 21, Alice Yan, Lai Ying Kit, Mimi Lau, “Incredible scenes as mainland shoppers strip supermarket shelves ahead of big chill”, inSouth China Morning Post‎^[4],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original onJanuary 22, 2016, China‎^[5]:

     Temperatures in Yakeshi inInner Mongolia (內蒙古) dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius yesterday, while Harbin (哈爾濱) in Heilongjiang (黑龍江) province experienced minus 19 degrees.

   • 2020 October 17, “Orphaned by the state”, inThe Economist‎^[6], volume437, number9216,page37:

     As elsewhere in China, Xinjiang has been stepping up efforts to banish ethnic-minority languages from schools—a policy that has recently triggered protests by parents inInner Mongolia, a northern region.

   • 2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, inAP News‎^[7], archived fromthe original on16 April 2022:

     The Shenzhou 13 space capsule landed in the Gobi desert in the northern region ofInner Mongolia, shown live on state TV.

   • 2023 February 24, “China mine collapse death toll climbs to 6”, inEFE‎^[8], archived fromthe original onFebruary 24, 2023‎^[9]:

     The number of deaths due to a collapse of a mine in northern China’sInner Mongolia region climbed to six as rescue efforts to locate the 47 missing continued, state media reported Friday.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Inner Mongolia.

• Nei Mongol
• (fromMandarin Chinese)Nei Menggu
• Southern Mongolia

• Outer Mongolia

• Inner Mongolian

• “Inner Mongolia,pn.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “Inner Mongolia”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.