A report on Ordos Desert, Ordos City and Shaanxi

Xiangshawan (响沙湾), a desert tourist attraction in Ordos Desert

Bronze statuette of a man, Ordos, 3rd–1st century BCE. British Museum

Genghis Khan equestrian sculpture in Ordos City

Genghis Khan Mausoleum in the Ejin Horo Banner

Education Department of Shaanxi Province

Temple of the Chenghuangshen (City God) of Weinan.

Guangren Temple of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Xi'an.

Road to the stupa of the Famen Temple (Chinese Buddhist).

Temple of Xuanyuan in Huangling, Yan'an.

The Ordos Desert is a desert/steppe region in Northwest China, administrated under the prefecture of Ordos City in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region (centered ca. 39°N, 109°W).

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Northern Shaanxi (or "Shaanbei") makes up the southeastern portion of the Ordos Basin and mainly comprises the two prefectural cities of Yulin and Yan'an on the northern Loess Plateau, demarcated from the Ordos Desert and the grasslands of Inner Mongolia's Ordos City by the Ming Great Wall.

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The Ordos covers the southern section of Inner Mongolia, an Autonomous Region of China; Ningxia, an Autonomous Entity of China; and the Chinese Provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.

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Ordos's prefectural administrative region occupies 86752 km² and covers the bigger part of the Ordos Desert, although the urban area itself is relatively small.

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It borders the prefecture-level divisions of Hohhot to the east, Baotou to the northeast, Bayan Nur to the north, Alxa League to the northwest, Wuhai to the west, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to its southwest, and the provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi to the south.

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Provincial boundaries. The Loess Plateau is shaded. The Yellow River is colored blue. The yellow area is Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.

Ordos Plateau

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Highland sedimentary basin in northwest China with an elevation of 1000 - 1600 m, and consisting mostly of land enclosed by the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River.

Approximate area of Chinese civilization during the Spring and Autumn period. Note the extension up the Wei valley

Bronze statuette of a man, Ordos, 3-1st century BC. British Museum. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen notes that the statuette displays clear Europoid features.

It is China's second largest sedimentary basin (after the Tarim Basin) with a total area of 370000 sqkm, and includes territories from five provinces, namely Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and a thin fringe of Shanxi (western border counties of Xinzhou, Lüliang and Linfen), but is demographically dominated by the former three, hence is also called the Shaan-Gan-Ning Basin.

The seventh largest prefecture of Inner Mongolia, Ordos City, is similarly named due to its location within the Ordos Loop.

The north Ordos consists mainly of the arid Ordos Desert (subdivided into the Mu Us and Kubuqi deserts), which is administered by Inner Mongolia's Ordos City, but the floodplains along the banks of Ordos Loop's northern bends are fertile grasslands historically known as the Hetao Plains ("river loop" plains), which is subdivided into the "west loop" (within Ningxia) and "east loop" (within Inner Mongolia, further divided into "front loop" and "back loop") sections.