Meanings
- A county-level city of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
The system is located north of Huolinguole city, in Inner Mongolia, China, where water is in serious shortage due to much less precipitation (389 mm yr−1) than evaporation (1495 mm yr−1) and where trees can not grow normally without irrigation.
[1997 September, Ziqing Ou, Tieheng Sun, Peijun Li, Ayfer Yediler, Guifen Yang, Antonius Kettrup, “A production-scale ecological engineering forest system for the treatment and reutilization of municipal wastewater in the Inner Mongolia, China”, in Ecological Engineering, volume 9, numbers 1–2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 20242 more examples
A few years after the smelter opened, herders in the area said that their sheep began falling sick, with jaws so painful that they could not eat. Soon, thousands of their animals had died. When they complained, the government simply arrested five of their leaders and forced the others to resettle in the nearby city of Holingol, demolishing their original homes.[…] In Inner Mongolia’s Holingol, the Huomei Hongjun factory is one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world.
2015 April 7, Simon Denyer, “In China’s Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2015, Asia & PacificThe Nanlutian mine is in Holingol in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in an area rich in sub-bituminous coal reserves. The mine plans to gradually replace its diesel-powered dump trucks with electric ones. Its aim is promoting green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly production in the coal mining industry.
2021 August 11, Ailbhe Goodbody, “Nanlutian coal mine gets 120t electric truck”, in Mining Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024, Fleets
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 霍林郭勒
- 霍林郭勒 (Huòlínguōlè)county-level city
Japanese ホーリンゴル
- ホーリンゴル (Hōringoru)county-level city
Cite this entry
Holingol. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Holingol
“Holingol.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Holingol. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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