You definitely know Inner Mongolia and often talk about Outer Mongolia, but do you really know them? What was their first impression on you? Why is it said that 1 Ordos city = 4 Mongolia? Super Super for you to compare Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, you will understand.
☆Establishment name☆
【Inner Mongolia】"Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China", referred to as "Inner Mongolia" or "Inner Mongolia".
Two ways to write the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
[Outer] "Mongolia", referred to as "Mongolia", the People of China are generally called "Outer Mongolia" or "Outer Mongolia".
Flag of Mongolia
☆Location☆
Inner Mongolia is located in the northern Xinjiang of the mainland, in a narrow and elongated shape from northeast to southwest obliquely, the regional outline can be figuratively said "like a soaring eagle", spanning the northeast, north China, northwest of the mainland 3 regions, in the national regional development strategy included in the "west", adjacent to 8 provinces and regions, and bordering Outer Mongolia and Russia, the length of the national border is about 4200 kilometers (of which about 3200 kilometers with Outer Mongolia, about 1000 kilometers with Russia).
Geographical map of Inner Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country located in the Mongolian Plateau in central Asia, the geographical outline can be figuratively said "like a large piece of watermelon chewed by Tsarist Russia", geographically defined as East Asia or Northeast Asian countries, only China and Russia have two neighboring countries, the east, south and west sides of the mainland Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang border, the north with Russia Siberia as a neighbor.
Geographical map of Outer Mongolia
☆Topography☆
Inner Mongolia has a high terrain, mainly a plateau area with an average altitude of 1000 meters, and the highest point is the main peak of Helan Mountain at an altitude of 3556 meters.
Topographic map of Inner Mongolia
Outer Mongolia is more topography, mainly in the plateau area with an average altitude of nearly 1600 meters, and the highest point is the Naramdal Peak at an altitude of 4653 meters.
Topographic map of Outer Mongolia
☆ Land area ☆
With an area of more than 1.18 million square kilometers, Inner Mongolia ranks 3rd by province in China and 26th in the world by country (there are 30 countries and regions with more than 1 million square kilometers in the world). The time difference of 2400 km from east to west is 2 hours, and the distance from north to south is 1700 km.
Outer Mongolia covers an area of more than 1.56 million square kilometers, slightly smaller than the mainland Xinjiang, ranking 19th in the world. Outer Mongolia also has a 2,400 km 2 hour time difference from east to west, and a north-south distance of 1300 km.
The ratio of inner and outer Mongolian areas is roughly 3:4.
☆ Population ethnic ☆
As of November 2020, the population of Inner Mongolia is 24.05 million, of which 18.94 million are Han, accounting for about 79%, and Mongolians are 4.25 million, accounting for about 18%. The population density is 20 people per square kilometre.
Inner Mongolia Grassland Naadam Conference
By the end of 2020, Outer Mongolia has a population of 3.28 million, of which more than 2.6 million are Mongols, accounting for about 80%, in addition to ethnic minorities such as Kazakhs. The population density is 2 people per square kilometer.
Outer Mongolian actress
In general, Inner Mongolia is 7 to 8 times the population of Outer Mongolia, while inner Mongolia is 10 times more dense.
☆ Administrative divisions ☆
Inner Mongolia administers 9 cities, 3 leagues, 12 prefecture-level administrative divisions, and 103 county-level administrative divisions of counties, cities, districts, banners, and autonomous banners.
Administrative divisions of Inner Mongolia
Mongolia administers 1 municipality (capital) and 21 provinces with a total of 22 provincial-level administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions of Outer Mongolia
☆ Capital capital ☆
Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, has a population of more than 3.4 million, more than the population of Outer Mongolia, with a GDP of more than 43 billion US dollars in 2020, more than 3 times that of Outer Mongolia.
Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, has a population of more than 1.4 million, accounting for almost half of the country, and the average population of other provinces is less than 100,000. The average age of Ulaanbaatar's population is very light, with 74% of the population under the age of 30, and it is known as "the youngest city in the world".
The capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
☆ Mineral Resources ☆
Inner Mongolia is rich in mineral resources, among which non-ferrous metal reserves such as rare earths, coal, natural gas, gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc rank among the top in the country.
Inner Mongolia has the largest coal reserves in the country
Outer Mongolia is also rich in mineral resources, but the coal reserves are generally only one-third of Inner Mongolia, and other mineral deposits are generally comparable to Inner Mongolia.
An open-pit mine in Outer Mongolia
☆ Economic development ☆
In 2020, Inner Mongolia's GDP was 270 billion US dollars, with a per capita income of 11,000 US dollars, slightly higher than the national average, ranking more than 60 in the world by country. Inner Mongolia's City of Ordos is one of the most economically developed cities known as "sheep coal and earth gas" (nicknamed "raising eyebrows"), with a GDP of more than $54 billion in 2020.
Ordos with "raised eyebrows"
In 2020, Outer Mongolia's GDP will be 13 billion US dollars, with a per capita income of about 4,000 US dollars, ranking 1000 in the world. Its pillar industries are animal husbandry and the export of mineral resources.
Animal husbandry in Outer Mongolia
As the animal husbandry industry in Inner mongolia is very interesting, in 2020, the number of livestock in Inner Mongolia is about 72 million heads (3 heads per capita), and the number of heads in Outer Mongolia is also 67 million heads (20 heads per capita, during the new crown epidemic last year, Outer Mongolia gave 30,000 sheep to the mainland), but unlike Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia is mainly based on natural stocking, which is damaging to the ecological environment, so that in recent years, many sandstorms from Outer Mongolia have seriously affected the mainland and even South Korea and Japan.
The total GDP of Inner Mongolia is roughly more than 20 times that of Outer Mongolia, and the per capita GDP of Inner Mongolia is roughly 3 times that of Outer Mongolia.