Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of northwestern China on the upper Yellow River, home to a large population of the Hui, a predominantly Muslim Chinese ethnic group. Its capital is Yinchuan.
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Source GeoNames: Yinchuan - GeoNames
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1. Ningxia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: area_total_km2
66399.73
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7,202,654
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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.
View the Source Wikidata: Ningxia
Wikidata Q57448, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source GeoNames: Yinchuan - GeoNames
GeoNamesHas Capital: Yinchuan, cities500 record 1786657, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 21)Quote, Has Capital: Yinchuan, cities500 record 1786657, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 21)
38.46806 106.27306 P PPLA CN 21 6401 2859074 1117 Asia/Shanghai
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