Salaqi (
Mongolian: , ) is the central
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Tumed Right Banner
Tumed Right Banner ( mn, , translit=Tumed Baruun Hôxûû}, ; / ''Měng-Hàn cídiǎn'' 《蒙汉词典》. Hohhot: / Nèi Ménggǔ Dàxué Chūbǎnshè 内蒙古大学出版社, 1999; . zh, s=土默特右旗, p=Tǔmòtè Yòuqí) is a banner o ...
. It is under the administration of
Baotou
Baotou (; mn, Buɣutu qota, Бугат хот) is the largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, as of the 2020 census, its built-up (''or metro'') area made up of its 5 urban districts is h ...
City,
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
, People's Republic of China.
Historically, Salaqi was a Ting
( zh) (薩拉齊廳) and then a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
(薩拉齊縣), ruling Baotou as a town within. After several alterations in mid-20th century,
Tumed Right Banner was established and Salaqi became a town; but the name Salaqi is still widely used by people in
Hetao area to refer to the accent, the disposition and other features of Salaqi locals.
Salaqi is also a railway station on the Beijing–Baotou Railway.
References
External links
行政区划网- www.xzqh.org
Township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
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