Ulanqab or Ulan Chab (; mn,
''Ulaɣančab qota'';
Mongolian cyrillic.Улаанцав хот) is a region administered as a
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
During the Republican era, many of Chi ...
in south-central
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 ...
, China. Its administrative centre is in
Jining District
Jining District ( Mongolian script: ; ) is an urban district that serves as the administrative seat of Ulanqab, a region governed as a prefecture-level city in the mid-western part of Inner Mongolia, China. It has an area of approximately 1 ...
, which was formerly a county-level city. It was established as a prefecture-level city on 1 December 2003, formed from the former Ulanqab
League
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.
Ulaan Chab city has an area of . It borders
Hohhot
Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.''The N ...
to the west,
Mongolia
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to the north,
Xilin Gol League
Xilingol, Xilin Gol, Shiliin Gol or Xilinguole Aimag/League (; mn, , , , ) is one of 3 leagues of Inner Mongolia. The seat is Xilinhot, and the area is . The league's economy is based on mining and agriculture.
Xilingol borders Mongolia to t ...
to the northeast,
Hebei
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to the east and
Shanxi
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to the south. As of the 2020 census, its total population was, 1,706,328 inhabitants (2,143,590 in 2010) whom 550,231 inhabitants lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of
Jining District
Jining District ( Mongolian script: ; ) is an urban district that serves as the administrative seat of Ulanqab, a region governed as a prefecture-level city in the mid-western part of Inner Mongolia, China. It has an area of approximately 1 ...
and
Qahar Right Front Banner largely conurbated in its northern part.
The western part of Ulaan Chab used to be part of the now-defunct Chinese province of
Suiyuan
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.
Administrative subdivisions
Ulaan Chab has eleven administrative divisions: one
district
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, one
county-level city
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, five
counties
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and four
banners
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:
Geography and climate
Ulanqab features a cold
semi-arid climate
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(
Köppen ''BSk''), marked by long, cold and very dry winters, warm, somewhat humid summers, and strong winds, especially in spring. More than half of the annual precipitation of around falls in July and August alone.
Demographics
In the 2000 census, there were 2,284,414 inhabitants:
Transport
Ulanqab's transportation network is well-developed, connected by several railways and highways. Some of the railways the pass through the prefecture are the
Beijing−Baotou,
Jining−Erlianhot, and the
Jining−Tongliao Railways. Major inter-provincial roads include the
G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway (),
China National Highway 110
China National Highway 110 (G110) runs from Beijing to Qingtongxia, via Hohhot, Baotou in Inner Mongolia, and Yinchuan. It heads northwest from Beijing to Zhangjiakou then heads straight west, and runs to approximately .
In October 2004 and Nove ...
(Beijing to
Yinchuan
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,
Ningxia
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) and
208 (
Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia to
Changzhi
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,
Shanxi
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). The city is also served by
Ulanqab Jining Airport.
Known people from Ulanqab
*
He Pingping
He Pingping (; 13 July 1988 – 13 March 2010) was a Chinese citizen and, according to the ''Guinness World Records'', at one time the world's shortest mobile man.
Early and personal life
Pingping measured tall, and was the third child of a ...
(1988–2010) was the smallest walking man standing at just
*
Guo Shuqing, banker, politician, Governor of
Shandong
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Shandong has played a major role in His ...
References
External links
Official website
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Cities in Inner Mongolia
Articles containing Mongolian script text
Prefecture-level divisions of Inner Mongolia