Ningxia
Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous region for the Hui people, one of the 56 officially recognised ethnicities in China.
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Ningxia
- Type: State with 6,180,000 residents
- Description: autonomous region of China
- Also known as: “ARNH”, “Avtonomna regija Ningšja ljudstva Hui”, “Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia”, “NHAR”, “Ning-hsia”, “Ning-hsia Province”, “Ninghsia Hui Autonomous Region”, “Ninghszia-Huj”, “Ningsia Chinese Moslem Autonomous Ch’ü”, “Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region”, “Ningsia Province”, “Níngxià”, “Ningxia Autonomous Region”, “Ningxia Hui Autonomous Qu”, “Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region”, “Ningxia Province”, “Ningxia Region”, “Province of Ning-hsia”, “Province of Ningsia”, “Province of Ningxia”, “Région autonome du Ningxia”, “Rhanbarth Ymreolaethol Ningxia Hui”, “निंगझिया हुई स्वायत्त प्रदेश”, “निंगशिया हुई ऑटोनौमस क्षेत्र”, “நிங்க்ஸியா ஹுய் ஆடோனோமோஸ் பகுதி”, “എൻ.എച്ച്.എ.ആർ.”, “നിൻഗ്സിയ ഹുയി സ്വയംഭരണപ്രവിശ്യ”, “ニンシヤホイ族自治区”, “宁”, “宁夏自治区”, “寧”, “寧夏自治区”, and “甯夏”
- Neighbors: Gansu, Inner Mongolia, and Shaanxi
- Categories: autonomous region of China and locality
- Location: Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
37° north
Longitude of center
106° east
Population
6,180,000
Elevation
1,617 metres (5,305 feet)
Abbreviation
“NHAR”
Abbreviation
“宁”
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Ningxia” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Ningxia”
- Afrikaans: “Ningxia”
- Amharic: “ኒንግሻ”
- Arabic: “نينغشيا”
- Armenian: “Նինսյա-Խուեյ”
- Armenian: “Նինսյա-Հուեյ”
- Asturian: “Ningxia”
- Azerbaijani: “Ninsia”
- Azerbaijani: “Ninsya-Huey Muxtar Rayonu”
- Balinese: “Ningxia”
- Basque: “Ningxia Hui Eskualde Autonomoa”
- Basque: “Ningxia”
- Belarusian: “Нінся-Хуэйскі аўтаномны раён”
- Belarusian: “Нінся”
- Bengali: “নিংক্সিয়া”
- Bengali: “নিংশিয়া”
- Breton: “Ningxia”
- Bulgarian: “Нинся-хуейски автономен регион”
- Catalan: “Ningxia”
- Cebuano: “Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu”
- Chinese: “Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu”
- Chinese: “宁夏”
- Chinese: “宁夏回族自治区”
- Chinese: “寧夏回族自治區”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ningksia Huy Özerk Bölgesi”
- Crimean Tatar: “Niñşâ Huy Muhtar Bölgesi”
- Croatian: “Ningxia”
- Czech: “Ning-sia”
- Danish: “Ningxia”
- Dutch: “Ningxia”
- Esperanto: “Ningŝjao”
- Estonian: “Ningxia”
- Finnish: “Ningxia”
- French: “Ningxia”
- French: “Région autonome de Ningxia”
- French: “Région autonome hui du Níngxià”
- Galician: “Ningxia”
- Gan Chinese: “宁夏回族自治区”
- Gan Chinese: “寧夏”
- Georgian: “ნინგსია-ხუეი”
- Georgian: “ნინსია-ხუეი”
- German: “Ningxia”
- Greek: “Νινγκσιά”
- Gujarati: “નિંગઝિયા હુઈ ઓટોનોમસ પ્રદેશ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nèn-ha”
- Hausa: “Ningxia”
- Hebrew: “נינגשיה”
- Hindi: “निंगशिया”
- Hungarian: “Ninghszia-Huj Autonóm Terület”
- Hungarian: “Ninghszia”
- Icelandic: “Ningxia”
- Ido: “Regiono autonoma Ningxia Huizu”
- Igbo: “Ningxia”
- Indonesian: “Ningxia”
- Interlingua: “Ningxia”
- Irish: “Ningxia”
- Italian: “Ningsia”
- Italian: “Ningxia”
- Japanese: “寧夏”
- Japanese: “寧夏回族自治区”
- Javanese: “Ningxia”
- Kalmyk: “Нинша”
- Kannada: “ನಿಂಗ್ಕ್ಸಿಯಾ ಹುಯಿ ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Нинся”
- Kirghiz: “Нинся”
- Kongo: “Ningxia Hui”
- Korean: “닝샤 후이족 자치구”
- Kurdish: “Ningxia”
- Latin: “Ningxia”
- Latvian: “Ninsjas Hueju autonomais reģions”
- Literary Chinese: “寧夏回族自治區”
- Lithuanian: “Ningsia”
- Lombard: “Ningxia”
- Macedonian: “Нингсја”
- Malagasy: “Ningxia”
- Malay: “Ningxia”
- Malayalam: “നിൻഗ്സിയ”
- Manx: “Ningxia”
- Marathi: “निंग्स्या”
- Mazanderani: “نینگشیا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nìng-hâ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lêng-hā Hôe-cho̍k Chū-tī-khu”
- Mingrelian: “ნინსია-ჰუეი”
- Mongolian: “Ниншя - Хотонгийн өөртөө засах орон”
- Nepali: “निङ्जिया”
- Northern Frisian: “Ningxia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ningxia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ningxia”
- Norwegian: “Ningxia”
- Novial: “Ningxia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ningxia”
- Oromo: “Ningxia”
- Ossetian: “Нинся-Хуэйы автономон район”
- Panjabi: “ਨਿੰਗਸ਼ੀਆ”
- Persian: “نینگشیا”
- Persian: “نینگشیا”
- Polish: “Ningxia”
- Portuguese: “Ningxia”
- Portuguese: “Ninxiá”
- Pushto: “نينګشيا”
- Quechua: “Ningxia”
- Romanian: “Ningxia”
- Russian: “Нинся-Хуэйский автономный район”
- Russian: “Нинся”
- Scots: “Ningxia”
- Serbian: “Нингсја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ningxia”
- Sindhi: “ننگزيا هوئي خودمختيار علائقو”
- Sindhi: “ننگشيا”
- Sinhala: “නින්ග්ක්සියා හුයි ස්වාධීන කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Ningšja”
- Somali: “Ningxia”
- Spanish: “Ningxia”
- Sundanese: “Ningxia”
- Swahili: “Ningxia”
- Swedish: “Ningxia”
- Tagalog: “Ningxia”
- Tajik: “Нинсиа”
- Tajik: “Нинся”
- Tamil: “நின்ஷியா தன்னாட்சிப் பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Нинся”
- Tatar: “Ниңчә-Хуэй автономияле районы”
- Tatar: “Ниңчә-Хуэй мөхтәри районы”
- Telugu: “నింజీియా హూయి అటానమస్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองหนิงเซี่ยหุย”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཤ་ཧུའི་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།”
- Turkish: “Ningşia Huy Özerk Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Ningxia Huizu Özerk Bölgesi”
- Uighur: “نىڭشيا خۇيزۇ ئاپتونۇم رايونى”
- Ukrainian: “Нінся-Хуейський автономний район”
- Ukrainian: “Нінся”
- Urdu: “نینگشیا”
- Uzbek: “Ningsia”
- Uzbek: “Ninsya-Xuey muxtor rayoni”
- Vietnamese: “Ninh Hạ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ningxia”
- Welsh: “Ningxia”
- Western Armenian: “Նինկսիա (Ինքնավար շրջան)”
- Western Panjabi: “ننگزیا”
- Wu Chinese: “宁夏回族自治区”
- Yue Chinese: “寧夏”
- Zhuang: “Ningzha Veizcuz Swcigih”
- “ma Ninsa”
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