Erdos Travel Guide

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• Beijing Travel Guide
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• Xian Travel Guide
• Guilin Travel Guide
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Erdos Travel Guide

Erdos, or Ordos, as it is called in Mongolian - a name that means "many palaces"* - is a city/ prefecture in the middle of the southwestern half of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia, for short) that shares a common border to the south with Shaanxi Province. Inner Mongolia lies roughly on a northeast-southwest axis. The prefecture of Ordos spans most of the Ordos Plateau, which is the area of the southern part of Inner Mongolia that is wedged between the great bend of the Yellow River to the north, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Ningxia, for short) to the southwest, and Shaanxi Province to the south. The border which separates Inner Mongolia (and most of the Ordos Plateau) from the two aforementioned adminstrative entities follows roughly the route of the Great Wall in this part of China.

Thus Ordos Prefecture stretches to the cities of Wuhai in the west,... [ View Details ]