Hetao
Hetao is a C-shaped region in northwestern China consisting of a collection of flood plains stretching along the banks of the northern half of the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River that forms the river's entire middle section.- Type: Plain
- Description: flood plains in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, China
- Also known as: “Голын тохой”, “Хэтао тал”, “河套地区”, “河套平原”, “河套灌區”, “河曲之地”, and “黄河河套”
Hetao
- Categories: plain and landform
- Location: Inner Mongolia, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41° north
Longitude
109° east
Elevation
1,029 metres (3,376 feet)
Open location code
8PHF2222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hetao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيتاو”
- Cebuano: “Hetao Pingyuan”
- Chinese: “河套”
- French: “Hetao”
- German: “Hetao-Ebene”
- Hebrew: “חטאו”
- Italian: “pianura di Hetao”
- Italian: “Pianura di Hetao”
- Japanese: “河套”
- Korean: “허타오”
- Literary Chinese: “河套”
- Literary Chinese: “河曲”
- Mongolian: “Бор тохой”
- Polish: “Hetao”
- Russian: “Хэтао”
- Swedish: “Hetao”
- Yue Chinese: “黃河河套”
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