Definition of "Ningsia"

Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.

1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins‎, volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?

"Where?""To Ningsia.""Ningsia?""You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia."

1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum‎, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 70

A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.

1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3