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Tongliao Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Inner Mongolia Region , In Chinese [通辽市]

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Administrative Division Code : 150500;
Post Code : 028000;
Phone Area Code :0475
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 蒙G
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 150500
Area Coverage: 59535 square kilometers;
Population : 3,110,000 persons;
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The adminitrative division form of Tongliao is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Tongliao Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Horqin District科尔沁区Ke'erqin QuDistrict
2Huolin Gol City霍林郭勒市Huolinguole ShiCity
3Kailu County开鲁县Kailu XianCounty
4Horqin Left Rear Banner科尔沁左翼后旗Ke'erqin
5Horqin Left Middle Banner科尔沁左翼中旗Ke'erqin
6Jarud Banner扎鲁特旗Zhalute QiBanner
7Naiman Banner奈曼旗Naiman QiBanner
8Hure Banner库伦旗Kulun QiBanner
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Tongliao (simplified Chinese: 通辽; traditional Chinese: 通遼; pinyin: Tōngliáo) is located in the eastern portion of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the intersection of Inner Mongolia and Jilin and Liaoning Provinces, and has an area of 59,535 km2, accounting for 5.4% of Inner Mongolia's total. Its population is 3.1 million. It is the most intensive place of the Mongolian people all over our country. Tongliao Power Station is located here. Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities and Inner Mongolia College of Farming and Animal Husbandry are among the educational institutions of Tongliao. Not far from Tongliao are silica sands. The original Mongolian name for Tongliao is Bayisingtu ('having buildings'). The city is 315 km from Beijing, the capital of China.




Tongliao has a temperate continental climate with a dry, windy spring, a short, rainy summer, a cool autumn and a dry, chilly winter. The average annual temperature is 0-6 Celsius, while the average annual precipitation is 400 mm.




Tongliao is replete with various natural resources. There are 12,500 km2 of forest in the surrounding area, accounting for approximately 21% of the city's total land area. Daqing Valley, a national-level nature reserve, is located in Tongliao. Additionally, Tongliao has approximately 41 various mineral resources such as coal, oil, Niobium, tantalum, beryllium, zirconium and other rare metals. Reserves of natural silica sand rank first in China, while reserves of coal and oil amount to 12.1 billion tons and 800 million tons, respectively.




Tongliao has convenient access to transportation. The Tongliao Airport is seated in the southwest on the outskirts of the city, 7 km from the city's downtown area. It operates flights to Hohhot every two days. Additionally, the Tongliao-Beijing Railway conveniently connects the city with Beijing. State Highway 111, State Highway 303, State Highway 304 and State Highway 204 run through the city and extend to harbor cities such as Tianjin, Dalian, and Qinhuangdao.

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