Hohhot
Appearance
Hohhot | |
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City of Hohhot | |
Hohhot Central Square | |
Hohhot (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange) and China | |
Coordinates: 40°49′N 111°39′E / 40.817°N 111.650°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Region | Inner Mongolia |
County-level divisions | 10 |
Township divisions | 116 |
Established | 1580 |
Government | |
• CPC Committee Secretary | Han Zhiran |
• Mayor | Tang Aijun |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 17,224 km2 (6,650 sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,158 km2 (833 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,158 km2 (833 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,065 m (3,494 ft) |
Population (2010 Census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 2,866,615 |
• Density | 170/km2 (430/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,980,774 |
• Urban density | 920/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,980,774 |
• Metro density | 920/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
• Major nationalities | Han - 87.16% Mongolian - 9.98% |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time) |
Postal code | 010000 |
Area code | 471 |
License plate prefixes | 蒙A |
GDP (2008) | 131.6 billion yuan |
- per capita | 51,016 yuan |
Local Dialect | Jin: Hohhot dialect |
Administrative division code | 150100 |
ISO 3166-2 | CN-15-01 |
Website | http://www.huhhot.gov.cn/en/index.asp |
Hohhot | |||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
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Chinese | 呼和浩特 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | blue city or calling for peace, abundant, & unique | ||||||||||
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Mongolian Cyrillic |
Hohhot, also Huhehot or Huhhot, is the capital of Inner Mongolia. It is the region's administrative, economic, and cultural centre.
Footnotes
[change | change source]- ↑ "呼和浩特市2010年第六次全国人口普查主要数据" [Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China]. 内蒙古新闻网. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related to Hohhot at Wikimedia Commons
- Hohhot government website Archived 2005-04-18 at the Wayback Machine