Mangnai

English Etymology en Proper noun en county-level city autonomous prefecture/Haixi p/Qinghai c/China. en w:Colin Thubron The Southern Road Shadow of the Silk Road London w:Chatto & Windus 2006 97 https://archive.org/details/shadowofsilkroad0000thub_l4k2/page/97/ 978-0-7011-7363-0 The border of the great north-west province of Xinjiang, a region three times the size of France, lay at the mining town of Mangnai, fifty miles beyond where I was sleeping. This was an old, feared frontierland - High Tartary or Chinese Turkestan - one sixth of all China now, which barged up against Central Asia. But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up. en 2011 Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World John P. Rafferty Deserts and Steppes https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/ w:Encyclopedia Britannica 1st 9781615303175 2010022143 631751212 143 https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/page/143/ A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai. en 4 March 2019 Laurie Chen China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet https://web.archive.org/web/20190303222615/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2188446/china-opens-mars-camp-researchers-tourists-and-plans-send-rover 03 March 2019 w:South China Morning Post Science Spanning 32 hectares (80 acres), the base is situated 60km (37 miles) from the town of Lenghu near the upper reaches of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, an arid desert region dubbed “the place on Earth that is most unlike being on Earth”, according to camp manager Gao Junling.[...]But the “Mars village” was originally proposed by the local government in 2017 as a cultural and educational centre for science, popular science and science fiction, according to Ma Wenwu, a member of the Mangnai city committee, which oversees Lenghu. en Translations county-level city Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 茫崖 Mángyá, Mángyái Japanese: ja