Baotou
Baotou
包头市 • ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤᠬᠣᠲᠠ Paotow | |
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Baotou Skyline behind Saihantalah Grasslands Park and in front of the Yin mountain range Yin Mountains of rural Baotou Xilamuren Temple Baotou metro area | |
Location of Baotou City jurisdiction in Inner Mongolia | |
Baotou Location of the city centre in Inner Mongolia Baotou Baotou (China) | |
| Coordinates (Baotou municipal government): 40°37′17″N 109°57′12″E / 40.6213°N 109.9532°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Inner Mongolia |
| County-level divisions | 10 Banners |
| Municipal seat | Jiuyuan District |
| Area | |
| 27,768 km2 (10,721 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 247.14 km2 (95.42 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 953.5 km2 (368.1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,065 m (3,494 ft) |
| Population (2023 census)
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| 2,761,700 | |
| • Density | 99.456/km2 (257.59/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,283,700 |
| • Urban density | 9,240.5/km2 (23,933/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,418,200 |
| • Metro density | 2,536/km2 (6,569/sq mi) |
| • Major ethnic groups | Han - 94% |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 426.3 billion US$ 60.5 billion PPP$ 106.8 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 155,050 US$ 22,003 PPP$ 38,859 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 014000 |
| Area code | 472 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-NM-02 |
| License plate prefixes | 蒙B |
| Local Dialect | Jin (Baotou dialect); Northeastern Mandarin; Southern Mongolian |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 包头 | ||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 包頭 | ||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Paotow | ||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Бугaт хот | ||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||||||||||||
Baotou is the second-largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, its built-up (or metro) area within its five urban districts is home to 2,261,089 people while the total population is 2,709,378 as of the 2020 census.
Baotou's southern border is delineated by the Yellow river. The city's namesake, literally translating to "place with deer", is Mongolian, bringing about the nickname of "Lucheng" (Chinese: 鹿城; pinyin: Lùchéng), meaning "City of Deer". Alternatively, Baotou is known as the "City of Steel in the Grasslands" (草原钢城; Cǎoyuán Gāngchéng), since steel was a major industry in the city which is built on the Mongolian grassland and contains a large grassland park. Today, Baotou mines and refines over half of the rare-earth minerals produced in the world. This has led to environmental contamination near the industrial sites.