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The external link doesn't work.

Therefore I don't have data on just where Baotou really is or how big it is. But I know it can't be 27691 square kilometers, and still fit into the rectangle defined by the latitude and longitude ranges in the article. I calculate that the rectangle has about 19400 square kilometers. If you meant to say that the city's boundaries roughly follow those lines but often overlap, then the word "between" might be replaced with "from about".

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/inner_mongolia/baotou/ shows similar but conflicting statistics, but their rectangle isn't big enough either.

Here are the details of my calculation. From 41 degrees 20 minutes to 42 degrees 40 minutes is (10,000 kilometers/90 degrees)x((40 minutes+40 minutes)/60 minutes per degree), which comes to about 148 kilometers from south to north. From 109 degrees 50 minutes to 111 degrees 25 minutes is (10,000 kilometers/90 degrees)x((10 minutes+60 minutes+25 minutes)/60 minutes per degree)xcos(42 degrees), which comes to about 131 kilometers west to east. So the area of the rectangle is about 148x131 square kilometers, which rounds off to 19400 square kilometers. Art LaPella 04:09, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

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Ok, it seems they made a change to their web server settings to not allow a directory listing - it used to. I will modify the external link. Baotou City Government Website in English

--Chris 15:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the link. It says that the longitude is 109 east to 110 east, and the latitude is 41 north to 42 north. That comes to only 9200 square kilometers or so, although it might theoretically be stretchable to 27691 by assuming wider boundaries like 108.6-110.4 and 40.6-42.4 rounded off to the nearest degree. That could resolve the contradiction, but only if we further assume that the coordinates in my link provided above are wrong, and that the coordinates in the Baotou article are also wrong and replaced with 109-110 and 41-42. Art LaPella 16:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)