Ulanqab or Ulan Chab ( zh, s=乌兰察布, p=Wūlánchábù; ''Ulaɣančab qota-means in Mongolian Ulaan-red, Tsab/tsav is-hills'';

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: Улаанцав хот) is a region administered as a

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in south-central

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, China. Its administrative centre is in

Jining District Jining District ( Mongolian: ; ) 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 114.2 ...

, which was formerly a county-level city. It was established as a prefecture-level city on 1 December 2003, formed from the former Ulanqab

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. The

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is located in the city. Ulaan Chab city has an area of . It borders

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to the west,

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to the north,

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to the northeast,

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to the east and

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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

and

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largely conurbated in its northern part. The western part of Ulaan Chab used to be part of the now-defunct Chinese province of

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Administrative subdivisions

Ulaan Chab has eleven administrative divisions: one

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, one

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, five

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and four

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Geography and climate

Ulanqab features a cold

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(

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''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

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(Beijing to

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) and

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Erlianhot Erenhot ( ; zh, s=二连浩特, p=Èrliánhàotè, commonly shortened to Ereen or Erlian) is a county-level city under jurisdiction of the Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, located in the Gobi Desert along the Sino-Mongolian border, acr ...

, Inner Mongolia to

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). The city is also served by

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Known people from Ulanqab

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References

External links

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