Horqin Right Middle Banner (

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: ; zh, s=科尔沁右翼中旗) is a

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in the east of

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, China, bordering

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province to the east. It is under the administration of

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. The local Mongolian

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is Khorchin Mongolian. The banner spans an area of 15,613 square kilometers in area, and has a population of 207,380 as of 2020.

Name

"Horqin" in Mongolian translates to "archer". The area was also historically known as the Tüsheet Banner (, zh, s=图什业图旗, t=, p=).

Geography

It borders Horqin Right Front Banner and Tuquan County to the north, Tongyu County and

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to the east, Horqin Left Middle Banner to the south, and Jarud Banner, Huolinguole and

East Ujimqin Banner East Ujimqin Banner ( Mongolian: ; zh, s=东乌珠穆沁旗) is a banner in the northeast of the Inner Mongolia, China. It is under the administration of Xilin Gol League. Demographics East Ujimqin Banner, excluding territories under jurisdict ...

to the west. The banner's main rivers include the , the , the Emtin Gol (额木庭郭勒), and the Wunugeqi Gol (乌努格其河).

Climate

The average annual temperature is 5.6 °C, and the annual precipitation is typically between 350 and 400 mm.

History

A segment of the runs through the banner. The Jin Dynasty city of Tule Mod ( zh, labels=no, s=吐列毛, t=, p=) was located in the banner, and its ruins of the city still exist within the banner. Horqin Right Middle Banner was established in 1636.

Administrative divisions

The banner is divided into 6

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and 6

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. The banner's seat of government is the town of . Others: * Budun Hua Ranch (布敦化牧场) * Tule Mod Farm (吐列毛杜农场) * Monggon Tolgoi Mine Work Unit (孟恩套力盖矿区工作部) * Budun Hua Mine Work Unit (布敦化矿区工作部)

Demographics

The banner has a population of 255,494 people, hailing from 14 different

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. The ethnic Mongolian population is dominant in the banner, accounting for 86.6% of the total population, the highest proportion of any banner.

Economy

As of 2016, the banner's

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performance o ...

totaled 6.596 billion Yuan, government revenue totaled 232 million Yuan, urban per capita

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reached 21,700 Yuan, and rural per capita disposable income reached 7,904 Yuan. The banner's main mineral deposits include

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tin Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn () and atomic number 50. A silvery-colored metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, a bar of tin makes a sound, the ...

copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

iron Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe () and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's o ...

lead Lead () is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Pb (from Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a Heavy metal (elements), heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale, soft and Ductility, malleabl ...

zinc Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic tabl ...

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...

, rare earth minerals,

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, and

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The Atom, atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen Tetrahedral molecular geometry, tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tet ...

Transportation

The passes through the banner, as does National Highway 110.

References

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