Ulanqab

Ulanqab

Ulaan Chab (Mongolian:, Ulaɣančab; Chinese: 烏蘭察布; Pinyin: Wūlánchábù) is a region administered as a prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China. Its administrative centre is in Jining District, which was formerly a county-level city. It was founded on December 1st, 2003, from Ulanqab league. Ulaan Chab city has an area of 54,491 km². It borders Hohhot to the west, Mongolia to the north, Xilin Gol League to the northeast, Hebei to the east and Shanxi to the south. At the end of 2004, Ulanqab had 2.7 million inhabitants. The western part of Ulaan Chab used to be part of the now defunct Chinese province of Suiyuan.

Rich and Colorful Tourist Resources

Ulan Chab, “red mountain pass” in Mongolian. It has a long history and numerous historical sites and relics, among which the sites around the Daihai lake and the site of Miaozigou have been confirmed as national important historical relics under state protection. Ulan Chab is endowed with beautiful landscape: grasslands, forests, mountains, rivulets, lakes, hot spring and extinct volcanoes. The Gegentala grassland, the Huitingxil Grassland, the Yellow Flower Gully, the Daihai Lake and the nearby hot spring, and the wind farm are the most famous tourist attractions. Located in the hub of Huhhot-beijing tourist area, Jining, the seat of the municipal govemment, is 350km to Beijing, 135km to Huhhot and 103km to Datong. No.110and 208 national trunk highways pass through the city and three railway lines (Beijing-Baotou, Jining-Erenhot and Jining-Tongliao) also converge here, thus making Ulan Chab an important link of the Midwest Inner Mongolia tour routes and one of the nearest grassland tourist areas away from Beijing with best transportation facilities.