Ordos Plateau

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The Ordos Plateau is a high, arid tableland in north-central China, characterized by its loess landscapes and encirclement by a great bend of the Yellow River.

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Label Occurrences
Ordos Plateau canonical 2
Ordos region 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
plateau
adjacentTo Kubuqi Desert NERFINISHED
Mu Us Desert NERFINISHED
borderedBy Yellow River NERFINISHED
climateCharacteristic large temperature range
low precipitation
country China
drainedBy Yellow River NERFINISHED
elevation high elevation
enclosedBy Ordos Loop of the Yellow River NERFINISHED
Yellow River NERFINISHED
geologicalComposition loess deposits
sedimentary rocks
hasClimate continental climate
semi-arid climate
hasFeature desert-steppe vegetation
water erosion gullies
wind erosion
hasLandscapeType arid landscape
loess landscape
hasNaturalResource coal
natural gas
rare earth elements
hasTerrain high tableland
historicallyInhabitedBy Mongol groups
nomadic peoples
historicallySignificantFor steppe-frontier interactions in Chinese history
locatedIn Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Shaanxi Province NERFINISHED
north-central China
locatedInRegion Ordos region NERFINISHED
northern China NERFINISHED
namedAfter Ordos NERFINISHED
partOf Loess Plateau NERFINISHED
Ordos Basin NERFINISHED
regionType arid plateau
subjectTo desertification
soil erosion
surroundedBy great bend of the Yellow River
usedFor coal mining
energy production
pastoralism
vegetationType desert steppe
steppe

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ordos locatedIn Ordos Plateau
Wuhai locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ordos Plateau
Mongol conquest of the Western Xia place Ordos Plateau
this entity surface form: Ordos region
Qin–Xiongnu conflicts hasLocation Ordos Plateau
this entity surface form: Ordos region