Baotou Travel Guide

Baotou, a prefecture level city whose name in Mongolian, Baoketu, means "a place abundant in deer" - though the deer have long since been decimated - is situated on the banks of the Yellow River near the foot of the Yinshan Mountains. Baotou is located roughly in the center of the southwestern half of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia, for short), which lies on a northeast-southwest axis. Baotou Municipality covers some 28,000 square kilometers, with a population totaling over 2½ million that comprises 43 ethnic groups, including the Han, the Hui, the Man, and of course the Mongols, to name the largest groups.

But long before the arrival of these groups, the area of present-day Inner Mongolia - which marks the eastern edge of the Eurasian Steppe,... [ View Details ]