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Dongsheng District

Dongsheng District

District in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China


Dongsheng District (Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠦᠩᠱᠧᠩ ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ; Chinese: 东胜区; alternate spelling English: Koshang; Turkic: Košang) is a District and the seat of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. It has a district population of 574,242. The district is predominantly Han Chinese, but has a significant Mongol minority.

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History

Map including Dongsheng (labeled as 東勝 TUNG-SHENG (walled)) (AMS, 1956)

Dongsheng is also the fastest growing district of Ordos City, half of the district being under construction. To enable further expansion, officials in 2003 planned the nearby district of Kangbashi, a brand new (city) 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Dongsheng.

Administrative divisions

Dongsheng District is made up of 12 subdistricts and 3 towns.

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  • Other:
    • Ordos High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (鄂尔多斯高新技术产业开发区)

Geography

Ordos's prefectural administrative region occupies 86,752 square kilometres (33,495 sq mi) and covers the bigger part of the Ordos Desert, although the urban area itself is relatively small. The region borders the prefectures of Hohhot to the east, Baotou to the northeast, Bayan Nur to the north, Alxa League to the northwest, Wuhai to the west, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to its southwest, and the provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi to the south.

Transportation


References

  1. Cox, W (2018). Demographia World Urban Areas. 14th Annual Edition (PDF). St. Louis: Demographia. p. 82.

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