Meanings
- A district of Wuhai, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
He then taught in Haibowan District in Wuhai City in Inner Mongolia (located on the Yellow River between the Gobi and Ordos deserts) for five years, and worked as a teaching director for three years.
2011, Changyun Kang, Keqin Liu, Yuping Li, “A cross-cultural professional learning community”, in Janette Ryan, editor, Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices (Routledge Contemporary Series), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, China / Education, page 621 more example
Carved out of Ordos and Alashan territory, Wuhai city is the chief coal mining center of southwestern Inner Mongolia. Wuhai city was originally two towns, Wuda on the western side of the Huang (Yellow) River and Haibowan on the eastern side. In 1976 they were merged as Wuhai. With an area of 2,350 square kilometers (907 square miles), the total population is 314,148, of whom 8,554 are Mongol.
2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Wuhai”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 589, column 2
Origin
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 海勃灣 /海勃湾
- 海勃灣 /海勃湾district
Chinese Mandarin 海勃灣 /海勃湾
- 海勃灣 /海勃湾district
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Haibowan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haibowan
“Haibowan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haibowan. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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