Baotou is the second-largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China, a prefecture-level city on the northern bank of the Yellow River. Its total population was about 2.7 million at the 2020 census. Baotou processes over half of the world's rare-earth minerals, materials essential to electronics, wind turbines and electric vehicle motors, and it also developed as a major steel-producing center during China's early socialist period, earning it the nickname "City of Steel in the Grasslands."
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone In the Other Atlases
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1. Baotou (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
the total population is 2,709,378 as of the 2020 census
Infobox: area_total_km2
27768
Infobox: elevation_m
1065
History section
incorporated as a town in 1809
Wikipedia REST summary, coordinates
{"lat":40.6213,"lon":109.9532}
View the Source 2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 40.6213,109.9532
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 1064.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 109.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 109.75
40.75 109.75 BSk
4. GeoNames: Baotou - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2038432Quote, cities500 record 2038432
40.6516 109.84389 P PPL CN 20 1502 2761700 1064 Asia/Shanghai
Wikidata: Baotou
- Wikidata Q569907, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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