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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · Prefecture-level

Xilingol League

Xilingol's grasslands hold the Yuan Shangdu ruins of Xanadu, a World Heritage site, and Erenhot, famed for dinosaur fossils on the Mongolian border.

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Regional story

A place shaped through time

A useful starting point for Xilingol League is the documented fact “Xilingol's grasslands hold the Yuan Shangdu ruins of Xanadu, a World Heritage site, and Erenhot, famed for dinosaur fossils on the Mongolian border.” The natural conditions and social experience of Xilingol League therefore belong to one connected geographic story. Communities responded to surrounding conditions through residence, exchange, and daily practice, giving the spatial pattern a traceable history. The chain from environmental conditions to social practice gives the regional change of Xilingol League a clear real-world expression. Taken together, these clues clarify the position, change, and distinctive contribution of Xilingol League within the larger region.

Xilingol League

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Xilingol League

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Xilingol Steppe

Xilingol Steppe

The quintessential temperate steppe of the Inner Mongolian Plateau core — the central stage and geopolitical buffer zone of nomadic courts through Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

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Xanadu Site

Xanadu Site

The Yuan Upper Capital ruins — a surreal dual capital nesting the rectangular Han axial grid within the circular nomadic tent ethic on the vast grassland, the northern power gateway of the Mongol empire.

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Xilingol League

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