Jining District

Jining
集宁区ᠵᠢᠨᠢᠩ ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ
Tsining, Chi-ning
Jining South Railway Station, c. 2013
Jining South Railway Station, c. 2013
Location in Ulanqab
Location in Ulanqab
Jining is located in Inner Mongolia
Jining
Jining
Jining is located in China
Jining
Jining
Coordinates: 41°1′50.3″N 113°5′55.9″E / 41.030639°N 113.098861°E / 41.030639; 113.098861
CountryChina
Autonomous regionInner Mongolia
Prefecture-level cityUlanqab
City establishedApril 1956
District establishedApril 2004
District seatQuanshan Subdistrict
Area
 • Total114.2 km2 (44.1 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total425,059
 • Density3,700/km2 (9,600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
012000
Area code0474
Websitewww.jnq.gov.cn
Jining District
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese集宁区
Traditional Chinese集寧區
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJíníng Qū
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingzaap6ning4 keoi1
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicЖинин тойрог
Mongolian scriptᠵᠢᠨᠢᠩ ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCJiniŋ toɣoriɣ

Jining District (Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠨᠢᠩ ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ; Chinese: 集宁区) is an urban district that serves as the administrative seat of Ulanqab, a region governed as 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.

As of 2011, it had a population of roughly 377,100, including members of the Mongol, Hui, Manchu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, Hmong, and Yi national minorities.

Administratively speaking, Ulanqab is a "city" and Jining a "district", in reality Jining is a de facto city, while Ulanqab 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: the Trans-Mongolian Railway terminates her and runs via the border town of Erenhot (Erlian) through Mongolia to Russia in the north, Hohhot and Baotou to the west, Shanxi province's Datong to the south, and the Jining–Tongliao railway to the east.