Baotou
Baotou is a city on the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia. The metropolitan area has a population of over two million.- Type: City with 2,710,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China
- Also known as: “Baotou Shi”, “Baoutou”, “Pao-t’ou”, “Pao-t’ou Shih”, “Pao-tou”, “Pao-tou Shih”, “Pao-tow”, “বাওটু”, “বাওটৌ”, “বাওতু”, “বাওতৌ”, and “包头市 ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ”
- Neighbors: Bayan Nur, Hohhot, and Ordos City
Baotou
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Western Inner Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
40.6175° or 40° 37′ 3″ north
Longitude
109.9449° or 109° 56′ 42″ east
Population
2,710,000
Elevation
1,064 metres (3,491 feet)
IATA airport code
BAV
UN/LOCODE
CN BOT
Open location code
8PGFJW8V+XX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baotou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baotou”
- Arabic: “باوتو”
- Armenian: “Բաոտոու”
- Asturian: “Baotou”
- Basque: “Baotou”
- Belarusian: “Баатоў”
- Bengali: “পাওথৌ”
- Bulgarian: “Баотоу”
- Catalan: “Baotou”
- Cebuano: “Baotou”
- Chechen: “Баотоу”
- Chinese: “包头”
- Chinese: “包头市”
- Chinese: “包頭市”
- Croatian: “Baotou”
- Czech: “Pao-tchou”
- Danish: “Baotou”
- Dutch: “Baotou”
- Esperanto: “Baŭtoŭo”
- Estonian: “Baotou”
- Finnish: “Baotou”
- French: “Baotou”
- Gan Chinese: “包头市”
- Georgian: “პაოთოუ”
- German: “Baotou”
- Greek: “Μπαοτού”
- Gujarati: “બેઓટૌ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pâu-thèu-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “באוטואו”
- Hindi: “बाओटौ”
- Hungarian: “Paotou”
- Indonesian: “Baotou”
- Irish: “Baotou”
- Italian: “Baotou”
- Japanese: “包頭市”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಟೋವ್”
- Kikuyu: “Baotou”
- Kirghiz: “Баотоу шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Баотоу”
- Korean: “바오터우 시”
- Korean: “바오터우시”
- Kurdish: “Baotou”
- Latvian: “Baoto”
- Latvian: “Baotou”
- Literary Chinese: “包頭市”
- Lithuanian: “Baotou”
- Malagasy: “Baotou”
- Malay: “Baotou”
- Marathi: “बाओटौ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Bău-tàu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pau-thâu-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Бугат хот”
- Mongolian: “ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baotou”
- Norwegian: “Baotou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Baotou”
- Ossetian: “Баотоу”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਓਟਾਓ”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਓਟੂ”
- Persian: “بائوتو”
- Polish: “Baotou”
- Portuguese: “Baotou”
- Russian: “Баотоу”
- Scots: “Baotou”
- Serbian: “Баотоу”
- Sinhala: “බඕටු”
- Slovenian: “Baotu”
- Spanish: “Baotou”
- Swedish: “Baotou”
- Tagalog: “Baotou”
- Tamil: “பாவோடோவு”
- Telugu: “బయోటౌ”
- Thai: “เปาโถว”
- Turkish: “Baotou”
- Uighur: “باۋتۇ شەھىر”
- Ukrainian: “Баотоу”
- Urdu: “بائوتو”
- Uzbek: “Baotou”
- Venetian: “Baotou”
- Veps: “Baotou”
- Vietnamese: “Bao Đầu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baotou”
- Welsh: “Baotou”
- Wu Chinese: “包头市”
- Yue Chinese: “包頭”
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