- Inner
Mongolia - Inner
Mongolia Urban population: 9.3 million
Nationalities: Mongolian, Han, Daur, Ewenki, Orogen, Hui, Manchu, and Korean
Area: 1,100,000 square kilometers
Altitude: 1,000 meters in general
Climatic features: Temperate continental climate; cold, long winters with frequent blizzards; waarm, short summers; from west to east, the climate changes from arid to semi-humid, and to humid in the northeast.
Average temperature: -23 C to -10 C in January, 17 C to 26 C in July.
Average annual rainfall: 50 - 450 mm; high precipitation in the east; 70 percent of the rain falls during the summer.
Physical features: In the northeast is the Greater Hinggan Range with dense forests; west of the range is the Hulunbuir Plateau, with vast grasslands for grazing; the rest of the Inner Mongolia Plateau consists of numerous deserts, sands, salt and alkali lakes, and scattered highlands.
Mountains: Greater Hinggan Range and Yinshan Mountains.
Plateaus: Hulunbuir Plateau in the north; Xilingol and Ju Ud Plateaus in the east; Alxa Plateau in the west; Ordos Plateau south of the Yellow River.
Deserts and sands: Hulunbuir Sands in the north; Horqin Sands in the east; Lesser Tengger Sands in the central east; Hobq Desert and Muus Sands south of the Yellow River: Ulanbuh and Tengger Deserts in the central west; Badainjaran Desert in the west.
Rivers: Yellow River, Ergun River, and upper reaches of Liaohe River.
Products: Wheat, naked oats, millet, sorghum, corn, potatoes, rape, sugar beet, soybeans; flax, wool; shiny-leaved yellowhorn, musk, bezoar, licorice root, Chinese ephedra; iron, coal, alkali, salt, graphite, mica, sulphur.
Administrative divisions: 16 cities, 18 counties, 51 banners, and 3 autonomous banners.
Capital: Hohhot
Neighboring areas: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia; the Soviet Union and Mongolia.
Major Cities: Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai, Hailar, Manzhouli, Tongliao, Chifeng, Jining, Erenhot, Ulanhot.
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