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de:Hohhot es:Hohhot mn:Көкэхота Hohhot (zh-cp |c=呼和浩特 |p=Hūh?h?ot?), occasionally spelled Huhehot, is the capital city of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
The name "Hohhot" is Mongolian language|Mongolian for "blue city". Hohhot was founded by Altan Khan around 1580. Until 1954, Hohhot was referred to by the China|chinese as Guisui (歸綏 Guīsuī), or Kweisui, which is the acronym of the two districts of the city:
The two sections later became Guihua District (歸化縣) of the Qing Empire, renamed to Guisui County (歸綏縣) in 1913, and upgraded to a city in 1950. It was the capital of the defunct Suiyuan Province. Located in the southern central part of Inner Mongolia. 9 county-level banner system|banners (旗县区), 2 street offices (街道办事处), 96 townships (乡镇). 11% Mongols, rest is mostly Han Chinese|Han, with Koreans|Korean, Hui Chinese|Hui, and other minorities. Inner Mongolian University is in Hohhot. There are over 50 sets of murals in southeastern Hohhot, including a "Horse-tending Image" (牧 馬 圖). Over 50 pre-modern Buddhist temples and towers. Cemetery of Zhaojun dates back to the Han Dynasty. Category:Cities in China This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hohhot".
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