Jining, Inner Mongolia
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Jining (Chinese language: 集宁; Pinyin Jíníng) is a district of Ulaan Chab prefecture-level city, in the middle-western part of Inner Mongolia. It is the administrative centre of Ulaan Chab. It has an area of approximately 114,200km² and is in the southern foothills of the Yinshan mountains. It has a population of roughly 200,000, including members of the Mongol, Hui, Manchu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, Hmong, and Yi national minorities.
Although Ulaan Chab is an administrative "city" and Jining an administrative "district", in reality Jining is the city, while Ulaan Chab is an administrative division covering a much larger area. See prefecture-level city for more information on this arrangement.
Jining is the seat of a Roman catholic diocese.
[edit] History
In 1675, the Jining area was placed under the administration of the Plain Yellow Banner of Chahar province, and in 1750 was transferred to Fengzhen City's administration. In 1922, it was renamed Jining and became a municipality, and the following year a county. In 2004, Ulaan Chab League, to which it is capital, is changed to a prefecture-level city, and Jining is correspondingly changed from a county-level city to a district.
