Altitude:
1,000 meters in general

Nationalities: Mongolian, Han, Daur, Ewenki, Oroqen, Hui, Manchu, and Korean

Climatic features:
temperate, continental climate; cold, long winters with frequent blizzards; warm, short summers; from west to east, the climate changes from arid to semi-humid, and to humid in the northeast.

Average temperature:
minus 23-minus 10 centigrade degree in Jan, 17-26 degree in July.

Annual average rainfall:
50 - 450 mm; high precipitation in the east; 70 percent of the rain falls during the summer

Physical features:
in the northeast is the Greater Hinggan Range with dense forests; west of the range is the Hulunbuir Plateau, with vast grasslands for grazing; the rest of the Inner Mongolia Plateau consists of numerous deserts, sands, salt and alkali lakes, and scattered highlands.

Mountains:
Greater Hinggan Range and Yinshan Mountains


Plateaus:
Hulunbuir Plateau in the north; Xilingol and Ju Ud Plateaus in the east; Alxa Plateau in the west; Ordos Plateau south of the Yellow River

Deserts and sands:
Hulunbuir Sands in the north; Horqin Sands in the east; Lesser Tengger Sands in the central east; Hobq Desert and Muus Sands south of the Yellow River; Ulanbuh and Tengger Deserts in the central west; Badainjaran Desert in the west

Rivers:
Yellow River, Ergun River, and upper reaches of Liaohe River

Products:
wheat, naked oats, millet, sorghum, corn, potatoes, rape, sugar beet, soybeans; flax, wool; shiny-leave yellow horn, musk, bezoar, licorice root, Chinese ephedra; iron, coal, alkali, salt, graphite, mica, sulfur

Administrative divisions:
16 cities, 18 counties, 51 banners, and 3 autonomous banners

Neighboring areas:
Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu Provinces; Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Neighboring countries:
Russia and Mongolia

Major cities:
Huhehaote, Baotou, Wuhai, Hailar, Manzhouli, Tongliao, Chifeng, Jining, Erenhaote, Ulanhaote