Mangnai

Mangnai
茫崖市 (Chinese error: zh-Hans is an IETF tag)
ᠮᠠᠨᠭᠨᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (Mongolian)
མང་ནེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། (Tibetan)
County-level city
Mangnai
Coordinates: 38°15′00″N 90°51′25″E / 38.250°N 90.857°E / 38.250; 90.857Coordinates: 38°15′00″N 90°51′25″E / 38.250°N 90.857°E / 38.250; 90.857
Country People's Republic of China
Province Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture Haixi
Seat Huatugou
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)

Mangnai also known as Mang'ai or Mangya[1] is a county-level city in the northwest of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The Huatugou Airport is located in Mangnai. The former Mangnai and Lenghu administrative zones merged to established the county-level city of Mangnai.

References

  1. In Central Plains Mandarin it is pronounced Mang-ngai, a transcription of Oirat Mongolian Mangnai. In Standard Mandarin, ngai developes into two different readings with ya the most common one and ai used almost exclusively here. There's a tendency to pronounce it as ya in this situation as well.
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