Baotou
Baotou
包头市 • ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤᠬᠣᠲᠠ Paotow | |
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Location of Baotou City jurisdiction in Inner Mongolia | |
| 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/km2 (260/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,283,700 |
| • Urban density | 9,200/km2 (24,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,418,200 |
| • Metro density | 2,500/km2 (6,600/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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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 包头 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 包頭 | ||||||||||||
| Postal | Paotow | ||||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Бугaт хот | ||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||||||||
Baotou is the largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, as of the 2020 census, its built-up (or metro) area made up of its 5 urban districts is home to 2,261,089 people with a total population of 2,709,378 accounting for counties under its jurisdiction. The city's namesake, literally translated to "place with deer", is of Mongolic origin or "Lucheng" (Chinese: 鹿城; pinyin: Lùchéng), meaning "City of Deer". Alternatively Baotou is known as the "City of Steel in Gobi" (草原钢城; Cǎoyuán Gāngchéng). Steel was a major industry in the city. Today, Baotou refines over half of the rare-earth minerals produced in the world. This has led to environmental contamination near the industrial sites.