Inner Mongolia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An East Asian region, south of Outer Mongolia (the present Mongolian republic), with closely related native Mongolian population, mostly north of the Great Wall, which however became part of the Chinese empire, and later an autonomous region in the People's Republic of China, comprising several northern provinces

Related

Similar words

• Nei Mongol
• Nei Menggu (from Pinyin)
• Southern Mongolia

Opposite words

• Outer Mongolia

Origin

• inner (near, seen from China proper) + Mongolia