How big is Inner Mongolia in your mind? If you compare the map of China to a big rooster, then Inner Mongolia is the back of the rooster, but have you ever seen such a majestic back? The distance from Beijing to Shanghai is about 1,000 kilometers, and the distance from Spain to Poland is also 2,000 kilometers, but the straight-line distance from east to west in Inner Mongolia alone is 2,400 kilometers, which is directly the distance from one country to another.
As the third largest province in China, the total area of Inner Mongolia has reached 1.18 million square kilometers, equivalent to 6 Guangdong Provinces plus one Jiangsu, directly spanning the three regions of Northeast China, North China and Northwest China, adjacent to 8 provinces and regions, and is the province with the largest east-west span in China.
In addition, Inner Mongolia is rich in resource reserves, land, animal husbandry, forests and other natural resources are located in China's first, with the East Forest West Mine, South Agriculture and North Animal Husbandry reputation. The average altitude of Inner Mongolia is between 1000 and 1200 meters, showing a trend of high in the south and low in the north, spanning the three major river systems of the Yellow River, Heilongjiang And Liaohe.
Because of the large east-west span, here you will feel the change of the four seasons and the gap in time at the same time, the geographical location of Inner Mongolia is located between 37 degrees and 53 degrees north latitude, the east longitude is between 97 degrees and 126 degrees, with Hohhot City, Wulanchabu City, Xilin Gol League as the center, Chifeng City, Tongliao City, Xing'an League, Hulunbuir City as the eastern region, Baotou City, Ordos City, Wuhai City and other 5 regions as the western region of Inner Mongolia.
Also Beijing time, when the Western Alxa Desert is still shrouded in darkness, the Daxing'an Mountains in the east have already been sunny, that is to say, I have just begun to eat, and you have already been on the Kang, we know that the time difference between the eastern and western ends of China is four hours, and Inner Mongolia alone has a two-hour time difference.
The temperature difference is also the same, the western region has already ushered in the spring of the recovery of all things, but thousands of miles away in the east is still wearing a large cotton jacket and two cotton pants, see here you know why Inner Mongolia does not include mail.
Speaking of Inner Mongolia, the first flashing picture in your mind is not a beautiful scene of wind blowing grassland to see cattle and sheep, the blue sky echoes with the steppe, everywhere yurts, herdsmen riding horses on the turquoise grassland, in fact, the narrow territory of Inner Mongolia is far more than the grassland, from the Daxing'an Mountains with dense forests in the east to the Desert Lonely Alashan Desert in the west, which also includes the Yin Mountains and Helan Mountains that are still standing. The long history of thousands of years and the gradual decline of precipitation have created today's Inner Mongolia.
Because the span is too long, people's "misunderstanding" of Inner Mongolia is not two or three sentences can be clearly explained, whether people living in Inner Mongolia are living in yurts, whether they ride horses every day to work and go to school, whether they can drink milk tea and dairy products every day on the grasslands, and a series of questions have caused heated discussions on the Internet, but in reality, many Inner Mongolians have not seen the steppe, let alone riding horses and herding sheep, and many of the places where they live are very far away from pastoral areas. No one runs thousands of kilometers to ride a horse and herd sheep, and living in yurts and drinking milk tea are almost all for tourists.
Then there is the problem of going to college, students in the western region rarely run to the eastern region to go to school, and people in the eastern region are not willing to go to the western region, saying that the simple point is because it is too far, if you are starting from Ejin to Manchuria, the distance between this is 58 hours by train, of course, you can also take a plane, so many Inner Mongolia candidates will choose to go to school outside the adjacent province.
In addition, the difference between the east and the west is also very obvious, many people regard the eastern region as the northeast, which is adjacent to Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other regions, the people living here are also full of northeastern taste, and the Inner Mongolian people living in the western region speak in a variety of ways, Shanxi dialect, Shaanxi dialect, Gansu dialect have everything, but take out the ID card to see that all of them are native Inner Mongolians.
The same is true of eating habits, and the northeast, the people in the eastern region are more inclined to eat rice, the western region is more like to eat noodles, pay attention to salty, but here it should be noted that the people living in Inner Mongolia are not all Mongolian, we have a total of 56 ethnic groups in China, only one province of Inner Mongolia lives 49 ethnic people, although many shepherds will speak Mongolian dialects, but many are real Han people, it can be said that a province in Inner Mongolia almost covers the differences between the north and south of our country.
No matter which ethnic group, Inner Mongolian people are generous and generous, hospitable, in the face of foreign tourists will smile and greet, although the area of Inner Mongolia is not as large as Xinjiang and Tibet, but its length is probably only Chile can be compared, such a wide place if you want to punch the clock, it will take a lot of time. Inner Mongolia has developed transportation, there are hundreds of railway stations alone, airports are as many as 20, the number of cars everywhere is not less than other provinces, and the number of residents in 2019 reached 5.91 million, so it also attracts the attention of thousands of tourists.
The vast grassland, the vast land, and the distribution of natural landscapes with great differences constitute the length of the territory of Inner Mongolia.