Ordos (city)
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Ordos 鄂尔多斯市 • ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠰ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ |
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Genghis Khan Memorial in Ordos City
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 Ordos City (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange) |
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 Ordos
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| Coordinates: 39°36′N 109°47′E / 39.600°N 109.783°ECoordinates: 39°36′N 109°47′E / 39.600°N 109.783°E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Inner Mongolia |
| Municipal seat | Dongsheng District |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 86,752 km2 (33,495 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,137 km2 (825 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,137 km2 (825 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,305 m (4,281 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 2,149 m (7,051 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 850 m (2,790 ft) |
| Population (2014 est.) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,035,653 |
| • Density | 23/km2 (61/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 582,544 |
| • Urban density | 270/km2 (710/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 582,544 |
| • Metro density | 270/km2 (710/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 017000 |
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GDP (2015) |
CNY 422.61 billion (US$ 67.85 billion) |
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GDP per capita (2015) |
CNY 207,682.44 (US$ 33344.43) |
| Licence plate prefixes | 蒙K |
| Administrative division code | 150600 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-15-06 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 鄂尔多斯 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄂爾多斯 | ||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Ордос хот | ||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠰ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | È'ěrduōsī |
| Wade–Giles | Ê4 Êrh3 To1 Ssŭ1 |
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| SASM/GNC | Ordos qota |
Ordos (Mongolian: Ордос қота Ordos qota; simplified Chinese: 鄂尔多斯市; traditional Chinese: 鄂爾多斯市; pinyin: È'ěrduōsī) is one of the twelve major subdivisions of Inner Mongolia, China. It lies within the Ordos Loop of the Yellow River. Although mainly rural, Ordos is administered as a prefecture-level city. Its administrative seat is situated in Dongsheng which had a population of 582,544 inhabitants as of the 2010 census. Another Banner is being urbanized quickly around the city of Ejin Horo with about 251,894 inhabitants at the 2010 census which is the seat of Ordos Airport.
Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Kangbashi District, a large District with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a "ghost city". It hosted the 2012 Miss World Final.
The area had been administered under the Ih Ju League, also spelled Ikh Juu (Mongolian: ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠵᠤᠤ ᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠭ Yeke Juu ayimaγ; Chinese: 伊克昭盟; pinyin: Yīkèzhāo Méng) since the 17th century, and was redesignated a prefecture-level city and renamed to Ordos on 26 February 2001. "Ordos" means "palaces" in the Mongolian language.Ordos originally referred to a tribe belonging to the Yeke Juu (Ike Chao ‘great monastery’) league and later included the tribe’s area, hence the Ordos, or Ordus, the area within the big bend of the Yellow River. Mongolian ordu(n), ord ‘court, residence of a ruler; palace; camp’, also for 'camp bodyguards'. According to Ramstedt -s is a plural suffix; further: ordu, orda; Turkic orta ‘a center’; Mongolian > Turkish orda ‘camp’ > Hindi urdū > English "horde." The name is sometimes claimed to be related to the eight white yurts of Genghis Khan. Linguistically, the Ordos dialect of Mongolian is quite different from neighboring Chakhar Mongolian.
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