Mangnai

Mangnai
Mangnai; 茫崖市 (Chinese); ᠮᠠᠨᠭᠨᠠᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (Mongolian); མང་ནེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། (Standard Tibetan); Mangyai
	County-level city
	Picture: surroundings of the asbestos mines.; Map: Magnai / Magnya (light red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
	Mangnai Picture: surroundings of the asbestos mines.; Map: Magnai / Magnya (light red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
	Coordinates: 38°15′00″N 90°51′25″E
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, bordering Xinjiang to the north and west. 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.

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In Central Plains Mandarin it is pronounced Mang-ngai, a transcription of Oirat Mongolian Mangnai. In Standard Mandarin, ngai develops 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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[1] In Central Plains Mandarin it is pronounced Mang-ngai, a transcription of Oirat Mongolian Mangnai. In Standard Mandarin, ngai develops 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.