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Inner Mongolia

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Also known as: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nei Menggu Zizhiqu, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Nei-meng-ku Tzu-chih-ch’ü
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Victor C. Falkenheim
Emeritus Professor and Former Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Editor of Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China.
Victor C. Falkenheim,
Chu-yuan Cheng
Professor of Economics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Consultant, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Author of China's Economic Development and others.
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Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Official Chinese:
Nei Mongol Zizhiqu
Pinyin:
Nei Menggu Zizhiqu
Wade-Giles romanization:
Nei-meng-ku Tzu-chih-ch’ü
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Inner Mongolia, autonomous region of China. It is a vast territory that stretches in a great crescent for some 1,490 miles (2,400 km) across northern China. It is bordered to the north by Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) and Russia; to the east by the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning; to the south by the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi and the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia; and to the west by the province of Gansu. Its capital is Hohhot (Huhehaote). Area 454,600 square miles (1,177,500 square km). Pop. (2020) 24,049,155. Inner Mongolia is essentially an inland plateau ...(100 of 3010 words)

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