ordos

Proper noun capitalized: Ordos

Ordos

1. A region of China, enclosed by the great northern bend of the Yellow River and the Wei River to the south; also called Ordos Loop.
   • The Chinese Moslems, who constitute the largest minority, number about 700,000. They are organized in two autonomous chou and three autonomous hsien. The Wuchung Moslem Autonomous Chou, situated east of the Yellow River in former Ningsia Province, was called the Hotung (“east of the river”) chou...1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246
   • The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less...1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China, Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60
2. The Ordos region proper: the area north of the Great Wall section that cuts across the Ordos Loop
   • The Ordos region in the narrower sense is nomadic by history, in contrast to the agricultural and densely populated southeastern loess part that stretches up to the Wei River valley.
3. Ordos prefecture-level city, contiguous with latter region in the northwest of the Ordos Loop, namely the part belonging to Inner Mongolia.
   • Kangbashi District, the famous Chinese newly-built ghost town, lies in the mineral-rich region of Ordos, more precisely 25 km away from Dongsheng built-up area in Dongsheng District, the municipal seat.
   • That prompted Buhchulu to quote yet another saying of this medieval eco-crusader: "'Don't freely dig up the earth!'"
     FREELY DIGGING UP the earth is exactly what I saw during a long, numbingly cold bus ride the next day to Genghis Khan’s mausoleum in the heart of the Ordos prefecture.2011, Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps through Clouds, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 388

   Synonyms:

   E'erduosi

4. Ordos city in the narrower sense: the urban area located in Dongsheng District.
5. A Mongolian dialect used in this city.