Horqin District

Horqin 科尔沁区 • ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ
District
Tongliao divisions: Horqin is 1 on this map
Coordinates: 43°37′21″N 122°15′21″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Region	Inner Mongolia
Prefecture-level city	Tongliao
Elevation	179 m (587 ft)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Horqin District
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	科尔沁区
Traditional Chinese	科爾沁區
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Kē'ěrqìn Qū
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Қорчин тоори
Mongolian script	ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Qorčin toɣoriɣ

Horqin District (Mongolian script: ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ; Chinese: 科尔沁区) is an administrative district of the prefecture-level city of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, and its seat of government.

The district was formed in January 1999 upon the creation of the prefecture-level city of Tongliao from the former Jirem League. The boundaries of the district is roughly coterminous with the core urban area of Tongliao.

The local Mongolian dialect spoken in the area is Khorchin Mongolian; most people in the district speak Mandarin Chinese (the most commonly spoken dialect is Northeastern Mandarin).

The Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities is located in the district; it was founded in 2000 as an amalgamation of the Inner Mongolia Normal College of the Nationalities, the Mongol Medicine College of Inner Mongolia, and the Jirem College of Animal Husbandry.

See also

• Horqin Left Rear Banner

References

• www.xzqh.org (in Chinese)