Baotou
Baotou is the second-largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China.
Baotou is the second-largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, its built-up area within its five urban districts is home to 2,261,089 people while the total population is 2,709,378 as of the 2020 census.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Baotou Museum
- 02Baotou Rare Earths Museum
- 03Wudangzhao Lamasery
- 04Guyang County Section of the Great Wall
- 05Shiguai District Section of the Great Wall
- 06Nanhai National Wetland Park
A protected wetland, scenic area, amusement park, and final approach route for the airport.
From Wikivoyage: Baotou, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
In Baotou, you can experience a rich variety of experiences: enjoy the natural beauty of the Maoming Grassland and the South China Sea Wetland, visit historical and cultural sites such as Wudangzhao, and learn about the grassland culture and the development of the rare earth industry.
- 01Dangerous Baotou
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Where to eat
Try Mongolian hot pot with mutton, especially in the winter. Any mutton dish is worth trying as they raise sheep up in the mountains.
- 01Little Sheep Restaurant
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Getting to Baotou
- Airports
- Baotou Donghe (BAV), 8 km · Ordos Ejin Horo (DSN), 126 km · Hohhot Baita (HET), 160 km
- Stations
- Baotou Donghe International Airport, 7.8 km · Baotou East railway station, 8.1 km · Wanshuiquan Railway Station, 3.7 km
- Ordos → Baotou116 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · ¥55–70
- Hohhot → Baotou153 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ¥70–90
- Datong → Baotou299 km · quickest by road, 5h 45m · ¥145–195
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Baotou
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Baotou. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Baotou – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Baotou
Baotou is 8 km from Qingshan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Qingshan Districtdistrict in Inner Mongolia, China8.3 km
- Jiuyuan Districtdistrict in Inner Mongolia, China2.4 km
- Donghe Districtdistrict in Inner Mongolia, China7.4 km