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Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region
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Location:
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Situated on China's northern
frontier. |
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Area:
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1,183,000 sq km |
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Climate:
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Inner Mongolia, with a
temperate continental monsoon climate,
has a cold, long winter with frequent
blizzards and a warm, short summer.
Except for the relatively humid Greater
Hinggan Mountain area, the greater part
of Inner Mongolia is, from west to east,
arid, semi-arid and semi-humid. |
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provincial capital:
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Hohhot |
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Population:
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23.76 millions (March
2001) |
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Ethnic groups:
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Mongol, Han, Duar, Ewenki,
Hui, Manchu and other ethnic groups
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Major Cities:
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Agriculture:
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Inner Mongolia is a major
stockbreeding center known for its Sanhe
Horses, Sanhe Oxen and fine wool sheep.
Apart from wheat, oat, millet, sorghum,
maize, potato and rice, a wide range
of cash crops are grown, including soy
beans, linseed, rapeseed, castor-oil
plants and sugar-beets. The Greater
Hinggan range makes up one-sixth of
the country's total timber reserves.
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Industry:
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The region
has large deposits of iron, chromium,
copper, lead, zinc, gold, mica salt
and mirabilite. Founded in many parts
of Inner Mongolia is coal, the reserves
of which total 198.2 billion tons --
second largest in China those of Shanxi
Province. Coal is mined in four large
open-cut mines and other collieries.
Huge quantities of it are turned into
electric current at thermal power plants
and carried by high-voltage transmission
lines to North and Northeast China.
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