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A regional view of Inner Mongolia

Eight regions, from Hohhot and the temples to Xanadu, Hulun Lake and the Alxa plateau. Points are reference locations, not gates, heritage boundaries or travel routes. Three leagues are not prefecture-level cities.

Inner Mongolia
Hohhot Baotou Chifeng Ordos Hulunbuir Xilin Gol Alxa Hinggan Dazhao Wudangzhao Liao Shangjing Eight White Chambers Hulun Lake reserve Xanadu

Selected waterways · simplified geography

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Liao Shangjing

The heritage bureau notes an eastward axis. The banner page gives the site area. The map point is the site OpenStreetMap returns in Lindong.

Stories

Looking south from the Liao Shangjing site at Lindong, across grass and a dirt track.

Two cities in one plan

Liao Shangjing at Lindong is a ri-shaped plan: an imperial city to the north, a Han city to the south, taken by the Jin in 1120.

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  1. Looking south from Liao Shangjing at Lindong.BabelStone · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Scaled to the page width and saved as WebP.