Huhehot

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A form of Hohhot — The capital city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in north-central China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Hohhot.

    The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.

    1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 235
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    In October 1958 a six-province Conference on Sand Dune Control was convened at Huhehot, capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. At this conference the Soviet scientists reported that the Soviet Academy of Sciences was planning to carry out a desert control project in Soviet central Asia from 1959 to 1965.

    1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960, Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, page 449

    When Peking red guards occupied government buildings in Huhehot, Ulanfu tried to compromise, then he created his own revolutionary organizations, and finally suspended the cultural revolution. He was accused of setting up an “independent kingdom” at the Gobi desert frontiers.

    1972, Oton Ambroz, Realignment of World Power: The Russo-Chinese Schism Under the Impact of Mao Tse-Tung's Last Revolution, volume II, New York: Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers, Inc., page 155
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