"Ningsia" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).",
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          "ref": "1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins, volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?:",
          "text": "Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.",
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          "ref": "1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum, J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:",
          "text": "\"Where?\"\n\"To Ningsia.\"\n\"Ningsia?\"\n\"You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia.\"",
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          "ref": "1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3:",
          "text": "A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.",
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          "text": "Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.",
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          "text": "\"Where?\"\n\"To Ningsia.\"\n\"Ningsia?\"\n\"You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia.\"",
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