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| | Chahar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | CHAHAR [Chahar], former province (109,527 sq mi/283,675 sq km), N China. |
 | | It was abolished as a province in 1952; most of it was incorporated in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, and the rest was divided between Shanxi and Hebei provs. |
 | | The rest of the region, mainly inhabited by Mongolian herders, is a high, almost barren plateau, where livestock raising and animal trapping are the chief economic activities; horses, hides, fur, and wool are exported. |
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