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Baotou

Baotou is a city on the Yellow River in . The metropolitan area has a population of over two million.
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  • Type: City with 2,710,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China
  • Also known as: “Baotou Shi”, “Pao-t’ou”, “Pao-t’ou Shih”, “Pao-tou”, “Pao-tou Shih”, and “Pao-tow”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Baotou

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
United Nations Location Code
CN BOT
Open location code
8PGFJW8V+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244076538
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2038432
Wiki­data ID
Q569907
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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”
  • Bengali: “বাওটু”
  • Bengali: “বাওটৌ”
  • Bengali: “বাওতু”
  • Bengali: “বাওতৌ”
  • Bulgarian: “Баотоу”
  • Catalan: “Baotou”
  • Cebuano: “Baotou”
  • Chechen: “Баотоу”
  • Chinese: “Pau-thâu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “包头”
  • Chinese: “包头市”
  • Chinese: “包頭”
  • Chinese: “包頭市”
  • Croatian: “Baotou”
  • Czech: “Pao-tchou”
  • Danish: “Baotou”
  • Dutch: “Baotou”
  • Esperanto: “Baŭtoŭo”
  • Estonian: “Baotou”
  • Finnish: “Baotou”
  • French: “Baotou”
  • French: “Baoutou”
  • 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”
  • Yue Chinese: “包頭市”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Baotou”. Photo: 天王星, CC BY-SA 3.0.