Erenhot, commonly shortened to Ereen or Erlian, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the Xilingol League in Inner Mongolia, China. It is located in the Gobi Desert along the Sino-Mongolian border, across from the Mongolian town of Zamyn-Uud. There were 74,197 inhabitants at the 2010 census and the elevation is 966 metres. Its position at the crossing of the frontier in the desert makes it a gateway between China and Mongolia, and it is written in Mongolian script and in Cyrillic as well as in Chinese characters.
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Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Erenhot (Wikipedia)
2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): SRTM 90 m elevation at 43.65, 111.9833
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)Elevation result for the city coordinatesQuote, Elevation result for the city coordinates
"elevation": 962.0
3. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Grid cell 43.75 N 111.75 E containing the city coordinatesQuote, Grid cell 43.75 N 111.75 E containing the city coordinates
43.75 111.75 BWk
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseChina section, report quoted from the US Naval ObservatoryQuote, China section, report quoted from the US Naval Observatory
CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
China (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this cityQuote, On Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this city
is a country in East Asia
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