Administration type Autonomous region
Capital Hohhot
Largest city Baotou
Area 1,183,000 km2 (3rd)
Population (2004)23,840,000 (23rd )
- Density 20.2/km2 (28th)
Major nationalities Han - 79%
Mongol - 17%
Manchu - 2%
Hui - 0.9%
Daur - 0.3%
Prefecture-level 12 divisions
County-level 101 divisions
Township-level 1425 divisions
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Simplified Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Traditional Chinese: 內蒙古自治區; Pinyin: Nèi Měnggǔ Zìzhìqū) is a Mongol autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, although the vast majority of its population are Han Chinese.
Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia. It has an area of 1.18 million km2 occupying 12% of Chinas land area, about the same as France and Spain added together, or Texas and California added together. It has a population of about 24 million as of 2004. The capital is Hohhot.
The official languages are Standard Mandarin and Mongolian, the latter written in the classical alphabet.
Administrative divisions
Inner Mongolia is divided into 12 prefecture-level divisions, including nine prefecture-level cities and three leagues.
The nine prefecture-level cities are:
Hohhot (呼和浩特市 Hanyu Pinyin: Hūhéhàotè shì)
Baotou (包头市 Bāotóu shì)
Wuhai (乌海市 Wūhǎi shì)
Chifeng (赤峰市 Chìfēng shì)
Tongliao (通辽市 Tōngliáo shì)
Ordos (鄂尔多斯市 èěrduōsī shì)
Hulunbuir (呼伦贝尔市 Hūlúnbèiěr shì)
Bayan Nur (巴彦淖尔市 Bāyànnàoěr shì)
Ulanqab (乌兰察布市 Wūlánchábù shì)
The three leagues are:
Xilin Gol (锡林郭勒盟 Xīlínguōlè méng)
Alxa (阿拉善盟 ālāshàn méng)
Hinggan (兴安盟 Xīngān méng)
The twelve prefecture-level divisions of Inner Mongolia are subdivided into 101 county-level divisions, including twenty-one districts, eleven county-level cities, seventeen counties, forty-nine banners, and three autonomous banners. Those are in turn divided into 1425 township-level divisions, including 532 towns, 407 townships, 277 sumu, eighteen ethnic townships, one ethnic sumu, and 190 subdistricts.
