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 The
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, rich and beautiful, which was founded
on May 1,1947, is the first region in our country where the regional
autonomy of the minority nationalities was realized. Inhabited by
49 nationalities, Inner Mongolia has a population of 22,840,000, including
3,700,000 Mongolian people and more than 800,000 people of other minorities.
It has an area of 1,183,000 square kilometers. The Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region has eight leagues and four municipalities under
its jurisdiction. Huhhot is the capital of the autonomous region.
From east to west Inner Mongolia borders on eight province and autonomous
regions, that is , Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shangxi,
Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu. Mongolia and Russia lie to the north of
Inner Mongolia, the boundary with the two countries extending 4221
kilometers.
Inner Mongolia is rich in natural resources. It has long enjoyed the
reputation of  being
endowed with "forest in the east, iron in the west, farming in
the south, animal husbandry in the north, and as for coal, everywhere".
The Inner Mongolia Prairie, with the total grassland area of 880,000
square kilometers which accounting for 74.4% of the whole area of
Inner Mongolia, ranks first among the five great prairies of our country.
The land of 176,000 square kilometers is covered with forest. The
total storage of timber is 946,000,000 cubic meters, which accounts
for about 10% of the national total storage. Inner Mongolia contains
nearly 1000 rivers and ten lakes. There are more than 1000 species
of plants, 93 species of fish, 362 species of birds and 114 species
of animals in Inner Mongolia. Now 49 species of animals are designated
as the major animals protested by the state and the autonomous region. |
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