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Also known as Shizuishan Shi, Shih-tsui-tzu, Ché-tsui-dze, Shizuizi, Chetsouidze

Shizuishan, formerly Shizuizi, is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is the northernmost prefecture in Ningxia and the second most populous, after the regional capital Yinchuan, bordered by Inner Mongolia to all directions except the south. Shizuishan sits on the western bank of the Yellow River on the western side of the Ordos Loop. It was formerly a center for caravans traveling the northern routes to and from Beijing across the Ordos Desert.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Shizuishan
Settlement.other_name
Shihtsuishan
Settlement.settlement_type
Prefecture-level city
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沙湖-2008 - panoramio.jpg
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Location of Shizuishan Prefecture within Ningxia (China).png
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The territory of Shizuishan prefecture-level city (yellow) within the Ningxia AR
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Ningxia
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Location of the city center in Ningxia
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Shizuishan municipal government
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
People's Republic of China
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Autonomous region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Ningxia
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Municipal seat
Settlement.seat
Dawukou District
Settlement.area_total_km2
5208.13
Settlement.population_as_of
2007
Settlement.population_total
730400

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Shizuishan, formerly Shizuizi, is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is the northernmost prefecture in Ningxia and the second most populous, after the regional capital Yinchuan, bordered by Inner Mongolia to all directions except the south. Shizuishan sits on the western bank of the Yellow River on the western side of the Ordos Loop. It was formerly a center for caravans traveling the northern routes to and from Beijing across the Ordos Desert.

==Name== Shizuishan was formerly romanized as Shetsuishan and Shihchu Shan.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shizuishan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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