Brief introduction of Baotou, Inner Mongolia

Baotou is a city under the jurisdiction of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a megacity and a large city with local legislative power. It is the manufacturing and industrial center and largest city in Inner Mongolia, the central city of Hu Baoyin Economic Belt and Hubao-Hubei Urban Agglomeration, a new second-tier city in China, an important basic industrial base in China and a global light rare earth industrial center, and is known as "Grassland Steel City" and "Rare Earth Capital".

Baotou is located in the hinterland of the Bohai Economic Circle and the Economic Belt along the Yellow River, at the southern end of the Mongolian Plateau, north of North China, central Inner Mongolia and south of the Yellow River, and the yinshan mountains traverses the central part of the city, forming three topographic regions: the northern plateau, the central mountainous area and the southern plain.

Baotou is an important hub connecting North China and Northwest China, a key development area for China and Inner Mongolia to open to the outside world, and one of the railway transportation hub cities in Chinese mainland.

Baotou is a transportation hub to communicate the nomadic culture of the northern grassland and the farming culture of the Central Plains. In 307 BC, King Wuling of Zhao established Jiuyuan County in Baotou. Baotou is the homonym of Mongolian "Baoketu", which means "a place with deer", so it is also called Lucheng, where there are 3 1 ethnic groups such as Mongolian, Han, Hui, Manchu, Daur and Oroqen.

Baotou is located at the intersection of Bohai Economic Zone and the resource-rich area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. It is bordered by Mongolian East Gobi Province in the north and the Yellow River in the south, with Tumochuan Plain and Hetao Plain in the east and west, and the yinshan mountains in the middle. The geographical coordinates of Baotou are 109 degrees 50 minutes east longitude to1125 minutes north latitude 4 1 0 degrees 20 minutes to 42 degrees 40 minutes, with an area of 2769 1 square kilometer. The built-up area of Baotou City is 360 square kilometers, and the urban area is 3 15 square kilometers.

Baotou is a typical immigrant city, which has experienced several large-scale population migrations since ancient times. In addition to the Mongols living in the world, other ethnic groups mainly come from North China, Northeast China and neighboring allied cities. The resident population of the city is 2.766 million, and the urban population of Baotou is 2.268 million.