mengla

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9
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13
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6

Definition of mengla

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A county of Xishuangbanna prefecture, Yunnan, China.
    “Deployment of more than 500 workers from the Chicom labor reeducation camp in Meng-la County, Yunnan, in the early part of this month to the Muong Sing area along the Laos border to help Laotian communists build roads connecting Muong Sing with Meng-lang and with Man-chien.”
    “According to the newsletter, when (Chu Ke-chia) graduated from a Shanghai middle school in April 1969 at the age of 17 he joined a large number of educated youths settling in the countryside. He himself settled on a production team in Mengla County, Hsihsuangpanna Thai Autonomous Chou, Yunnan Province.”
    “In Mengla, a county in Yunnan on the border with Myanmar, traffic flows have surged since March 28 as people return to China by road following the cancellation of flights as well as toughened airport controls, residents said.”

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Etymology

From Mandarin 勐臘 /勐腊 (Měnglà).

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