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Kangbashi District

Kangbashi District
Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicХиа багш дугаригMongolian scriptᠬᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠠᠭᠰᠢ ᠳᠤᠭᠤᠷᠢᠭ

Kangbashi District (Chinese: 康巴什区; Mongolian: ᠬᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠠᠭᠰᠢ ᠳᠤᠭᠤᠷᠢᠭ, Hiya Bagsi dûgûrig) is an urban district of the prefecture-level city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, China.

The district is internationally known for its opulent civic square and monuments and in 2009, made global headlines for having a population of around 30,000 people, which was considered small relative to the grandeur of the built-up space, and was deemed as a "ghost city". However the district's population has grown since in the years afterwards, and had reached a size of almost 120,000 people in 2021.