Eren Hot
| Èrlián Hàotè Shì 二连浩特 市 Eren Hot |
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 railway station |
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| Coordinates | 43 ° 39 ′ N , 111 ° 59 ′ E | ||
 Long Eren Hots in Xilin Gol |
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| Basic data | |||
| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| region | North china | ||
| Autonomous area | Inner Mongolia | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-NM | ||
| status | District-free city | ||
| structure | 3 street quarters, 1 sum | ||
| height | 963 m | ||
| surface | 4,015.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 74,197 (2010) | ||
| density | 18.5 Ew. / km² | ||
| Post Code | 011100, 011107, 011108 | ||
| Telephone code | (+86) 479 | ||
| Time zone | China Standard Time (CST) UTC +8 |
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| Website | www.elht.gov.cn | ||
Eren Hot , also Erenhot , Erlian or Ereen ( Chinese 二连浩特 市 , Pinyin Èrlián Hàotè Shì , Mongolian :ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ
ᠬᠣᠲᠠ Eriyen qota , in Cyrillic Эрээн or Эрээн хот), is an independent city of the Xilin Gol Federation in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ofthe People's Republic of China . It is located in the Gobi desert.
The administrative area of the city has an area of 4015.09 km² and had 47,025 inhabitants in 2000 according to the census. It lies at an altitude of 966 m on the border with Mongolia .
Administrative structure
At the community level, Eren Hot consists of three street districts and a sum . These are:
- Street district Ulan ( 乌兰 街道 );
- Road quarter Xilin ( 锡林街道 );
- Dongcheng Street ( 东城 街道 );
- Sum Gerel Od ( 格 日 勒 敖 都 苏木 ).
Ethnic breakdown of the population Eren Hot (2000)
In the 2000 census, Eren Hot counted 47,025 residents.
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Han | 40,430 | 85.98% |
| Mongols | 6,120 | 13.01% |
| Manju | 366 | 0.78% |
| Hui | 59 | 0.13% |
| Korean | 16 | 0.03% |
| Daur | 15th | 0.03% |
| Others | 19th | 0.04% |
traffic
Eren Hot is the border stop of the Trans-Mongolian Railway between Mongolia and China, and the trains are switched to the other gauge there.
There is also a border crossing for motor vehicles just north of the city. Eren Hot marks the northern end of China's National Road 208 from Changzhi . On the Mongolian side, Zamin-Uud forms the southern end of the most important north-south road connection in Mongolia, through the capital Ulan Bator to the Russian border at Süchbaatar .
dinosaur
The immediate vicinity of the city, especially the "Iren-Dabasu-Formation" known among paleontologists and the Iren nor salt lake ( Mongolian : Ereen = colorful, davs = salt, nuur = lake) in the east, is known for the discovery of numerous dinosaurs . In 1921 the American "dinosaur hunter" Roy Chapman Andrews discovered the first dinosaur remains in Asia north of the Himalayas near the city . The city now houses a dinosaur museum. There are also many dinosaur models in the city park and next to the road from the city to the south.