# Inner Mongolia
## English
### Etymology

inner (near, seen from China proper) + Mongolia

### Proper noun

Inner Mongolia
* An autonomous region of China, south of Mongolia, with closely related native Mongolian population, mostly north of the Great Wall. Capital: Hohhot.
** 1832 August, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume 1, number 4, Canton, page 120: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, volume 1, page 12:The twenty-four tribes, or Aimaks, in Inner Mongolia constitute forty-nine standards or Khochoun,—Ke, in Chinese.
** 1973 February 4, “Size of Inner Mongolia reduced”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 5, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:The Chinese Communist regime has drastically reduced the size of Inner 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 of Inner Mongolia, Peiping fears that the Mongolians might rise to pave the way for a Russian invasion, the report said. By cutting up Inner 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”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 22, 2016, China‎:Temperatures in Yakeshi in Inner 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”, in The Economist‎, volume 437, number 9216, page 37: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 in Inner Mongolia, a northern region.
** 2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 16 April 2022:The Shenzhou 13 space capsule landed in the Gobi desert in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, shown live on state TV.
** 2023 February 24, “China mine collapse death toll climbs to 6”, in EFE‎, archived from the original on February 24, 2023‎:The number of deaths due to a collapse of a mine in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region climbed to six as rescue efforts to locate the 47 missing continued, state media reported Friday.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Inner Mongolia.

#### Synonyms

* Nei Mongol
* (from Mandarin Chinese) Nei Menggu
* Southern Mongolia

#### Antonyms

* Outer Mongolia

#### Derived terms

* Inner Mongolian

#### Translations
### See also

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text) :
* Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
* Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
* Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
* Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

### Further reading

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