Alxa League or Alashan League is one of 12 prefecture level divisions and 3 extant leagues, or aimags, of Inner Mongolia. The league borders Mongolia to the north, Bayan Nur to the northeast, Wuhai and Ordos to the east, Ningxia to the southeast, and Gansu to the south and west. The capital is Bayanhot town (Chinese: 巴彦浩特镇), formerly known as Dingyuanying (定远营镇) or Wang Ye Fu, in the aimag's Left Banner. The Mongolian variety spoken in this area is the Alasha dialect.
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👉 Alxa League in the context of Ejin Banner
Ejin (Mongolian: ᠡᠵᠡᠨᠡ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ; Chinese: 额济纳旗) is a banner in the far west of Inner Mongolia, China. It is under the administration of Alxa League and is the westernmost county-level division of Inner Mongolia, bordering Gansu province to the west and Mongolia's Bayankhongor and Govi-Altai Provinces. Its seat is located at Dalaihob Town. To the west, it shares a border with Subei Mongol Autonomous County of Jiuquan, Gansu.
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Alxa League in the context of Khara-Khoto
Khara-Khoto (Chinese: 哈拉浩特 or 哈日浩特; Mongolian: Хар хот (Khar Khot); 'black city'), also known as Qara-Qoto, Heicheng (Chinese: 黑城), Heishuicheng or Heishui City (Chinese: 黑水城), is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, and Ejin Banner is named after this city.
Alxa League in the context of Helan Mountains
The Helan Mountains, frequently called Alashan Mountains in older sources, are an isolated desert mountain range forming the border of Inner Mongolia's Alxa League and Ningxia. They run north-south parallel to the north-flowing Yellow River in the Ordos Loop section. The river is mostly east of the mountains, but in the north it crosses without making a significant gorge and flows on the west side. To the west lies the extremely arid Tengger Desert, while to the east is an irrigated area beside the Yellow River, in which lie the cities of Yinchuan and Shizuishan - a little further east of which lies the Mu Us portion of the Ordos Desert. To the north lies the Inner Mongolian city of Wuhai.
They are about 200 kilometres (120 mi) from north to south, from 15 to 50 kilometres (9.3 to 31.1 mi) wide and average about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in altitude (the Yellow River here is about 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) above sea level). Their highest peak is 3,556 metres (11,667 ft).
Alxa League in the context of Juyan Lake Basin
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The Juyan Lake (Chinese: 居延海; Wade–Giles: Chüyen Hai, Mongolian: Sogo Nuur) is an endorheic lake in the Gobi Desert. It is located in the western part of Inner Mongolia, in Ejin Banner of the Alxa League, near the border with Mongolia. It originally referred to two lakes, the western of which was called Gashuun Nuur in Mongolian (Chinese: 嘎顺淖尔 Gāshùn nào'ěr or 嘎顺诺尔 Gāshùn nuò'ěr). Through the process of desertification, Gashuun Nuur had an area of 267 km (103 sq mi) in 1958, 213 km (82 sq mi) in 1960, and dried up completely in 1961. The eastern lake followed in 1992, but reappeared in 2005. As of August 2012, the area of the lake is 38 km (15 sq mi).