Ningxia Travel Guide
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Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (called "Ning" for short by the indigenous population; "Ningxia" for short by everyone else) is located north of Gansu Province (Ningxia dips down into Gansu Province, as it were – note that the area of present-day Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was in fact formerly a part of Gansu Province) and west of the northern tip of Shaanxi Province.
The area comprises two main topographic regions: a northern plains that lies along the Yellow River, and a southern plateau which includes the Liupan Mountains. Thanks to the Yellow River, which brings much-neeed irrigation, Ningxia possesses considerable agricultural resources, including extensive grazing lands, and this despite the loess highland composition (loess is a...[ View Details ]
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