# Ningxia
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ning-hsia, Ninghsia (Wade–Giles)
* Ningsia

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧夏 / 宁夏 (Níngxià).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɪŋˈʃjɑː/, enPR: nǐngʹshyäʹ

### Proper noun

Ningxia
* A Hui autonomous region of China. Official name: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Capital: Yinchuan. [from late 20th c.]
** 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, “Land and Population”, in Encyclopedia of China Today‎, Eurasia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:In 1955, the trans-Mongolian railroad was inaugurated and in 1958 the Baotou line was extended to Lanzhou in Gansu, passing through Ningxia.
** 1993, A. Doak Barnett, “Han and Hui: Ningxia”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:FROM Baotou, China’s interior trunk line goes west and then south to one of China’s main concentrations of Muslims, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. My train left Baotou at 9:16 A.M., and the 317-mile trip took slightly over 10 hours; we arrived at 7:30 P.M., just 19 minutes late, at Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan.
** 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2018, Asia‎:Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.
** 2019 September 10, Dominique Patton, “China reports new African swine fever case in Ningxia”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Health News‎:China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported a new case of African swine fever on a farm in the northwestern region of Ningxia on Tuesday.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ningxia.

#### Synonyms

* (abbreviation) NHAR

#### 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

### References

* ↑ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 359:Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region (Ning-hsia Hui Tu-chih Ch'ü, Ningxia Hui Zizhi Qu)
* ↑ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Ningsia or Ning-hsia”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1327, column 1

### Further reading

* “Ningxia”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* Ningxia, Ninghsia, Ning-hsia, Ningsia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “Ningxia Huizu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “Ningxia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Ningxia” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1: “The name sometimes appears as Ninghsia Hui; also known as Ning.”

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Ningxia f
* Ningxia, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (A Hui autonomous region of China)