Solun () is a town in the

Hinggan League The Hinggan League; tr. ''Hinggan Aimag'', Mongol Cyrillic: Хянган аймаг is a prefecture-level subdivision of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China. It borders Hulun Buir to the north, the Republic of Mongolia and Xi ...

, of northeastern

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

, People's Republic of China, located northwest, by road, of the city of Ulan Hot. Its name in the

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means "hunted paddock or hunting

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", which could derive from the fact that the

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(ruled 1661–1722) of the

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often came here to hunt, after being impressed by the local topography, purple appearance of the environs, valleys enclosed by lofty mountains, and three rivers.

Geography and transport

Solun has an area of , and is located in a valley in the

Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range ( zh, s=大兴安岭, t=大興安嶺, p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng; IPA: ) is a volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, whi ...

Range. The area's climate is harsh, with only 90 to 105 frost-free days per annum. The three rivers crossing through the town's administrative area are the Tao'er River (洮儿河),

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(哈干河), and the Manchu River (满族河). Important transport links include the Baicheng–Alxan Railway (白阿铁路) and the Inner Mongolia Provincial Highway 203, connecting the town with

Baicheng Baicheng ( zh, s=, p=Báichéng Shì, l=White City, c=白城市) is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast. At the 201 ...

(

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) and Ulan Hot.

Demographics

Solun has a total population of 19,500, and the registered population (i.e. those with

hukou permit ''Hukou'' ( zh, c=户口, l=household individual) is a system of household registration used in the People's Republic of China. The system itself is more properly called ''huji'' ( zh, c=户籍, l=household origin), and has origins in ancie ...

s) numbers 6,500. Around 40% of the population consists of

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, the other ethnic groups being the Han,

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Daurs The Daurs, Dagur, Daghur, or Dahur ( Dagur:Daure; Khalkha Mongolian: , ; ; Russian: Дауры, Daury) are a Mongolic people originally native to Dauriya and now predominantly located in Northeast China (and Siberia, Russia, in the past). The D ...

, Oroqen,

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(

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), and the Hui.

References

Township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia {{InnerMongolia-geo-stub