A report on Shaanxi and Ordos City
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.
- ShaanxiIt 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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Ordos Plateau
1 linksHighland 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.
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.
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.
Ordos Desert
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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).
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.
Inner Mongolia
0 linksLandlocked autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Landlocked autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Its capital is Hohhot; other major cities include Baotou, Chifeng, Tongliao and Ordos.
It borders eight provincial-level divisions in all three of the aforementioned regions (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu), tying with Shaanxi for the greatest number of bordering provincial-level divisions.