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Dabasun Nor
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese海子
Simplified Chinese海子
PostalCharamannai Nor
Literal meaningGreat Salt Lake
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàyán Hǎizi
Wade–GilesTa-yen Hai-tzu
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠳᠠᠪᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCDabusun Naɣur

Dabasun Nor was a former salt lake in the northwest corner of the Ordos Loop in what is now the Hanggin Banner of Ordos Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China.

Names

Dabasun Nor[1][2] is a romanization of the lake's Mongolian name, which means simply "Salt Lake".

It was also known as Charamannai Nor[3] and Ta-yen Hai-tzu.[1]

Geography

As late as the mid-1950s, Dabasun Nor was reckoned as usually 13 km (8 mi) long and 2.4–3.2 km (1.5–2 mi) wide, with an expansive salt marsh to its east.[1]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Zhang (1956).
  2. ^ Chambers Encyclopaedia (1968), Vol. XV, p. 189.
  3. ^ Stanford (1917), p. 22.

Bibliography

  • "NK-49: Kuei-sui", Washington: United States Army Map Service, 1949 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help).
  • Stanford, Edward (1917), Complete Atlas of China, 2nd ed., London: China Inland Mission.
  • Zhang, Kun (1956), A Regional Handbook on the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Human Relations Area Files, Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help).