Jining District (Chinese: 集宁区; pinyin: Jíníng Qū) is an urban district that serves as the administrative seat of Ulaan Chab, a prefecture-level city in the mid-western part of Inner Mongolia, China. It has an area of approximately 114.2 km² and is in the southern foothills of the Yinshan mountains. It has a population of roughly 200,000, including members of the Mongol, Hui, Manchu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, Hmong, and Yi national minorities.
Although Ulaan Chab is an administrative "city" and Jining an administrative "district", in reality Jining is a de facto city, while Ulaan Chab is an administrative division covering a much larger area. See prefecture-level city for more information on this arrangement.
Jining South Railway Station (集宁南站) serves as a railway intersection to the border town of Erenhot to the north, Hohhot and Baotou to the west, and the mining city Datong to the south.
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