Why do Inner Mongolians say they are from the Northeast?

This is because Northeast China is a geographical and cultural region, not an administrative region as people think. It includes not only Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, but also some places in eastern Inner Mongolia and northern Hebei, so people in eastern Inner Mongolia can also say that they are from the northeast.

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region governs 12 prefecture-level administrative regions, including 9 prefecture-level cities and 3 leagues, namely Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai, Chifeng, Tongliao, Erdos, Hulunbeier, Bayannaoer, Wulanchabu, Xing 'an League, Xilingol League and Alashan League.

23 municipal districts, 1 1 county-level cities, 17 counties, 49 flags and 3 autonomous flags (a total of 103 county-level administrative divisions).

Geographical location of Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, located in the northern frontier of People's Republic of China (PRC), is long and narrow and extends obliquely from northeast to southwest. It starts from east longitude 126 04' and reaches east longitude 97 12' in the west, spanning longitude 28 52', with a straight line distance of more than 2,400 kilometers from east to west. It starts from 37 24' north latitude in the south and ends at 53 23' north latitude, occupying latitude15 59' vertically, and the linear distance is 1700 km.

China has a total area of1183,000 square kilometers, accounting for 12.3% of the land area, making it the third largest province in China. East, south and west are adjacent to Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu in turn, spanning the three north (northeast, north and northwest) and close to Beijing and Tianjin.

Bordering Mongolia and Russia in the north, it has two important ports, Erenhot and Manzhouli, with a border of 4,200 kilometers.