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Ordos

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[awr-dos] / ˈɔr dɒs /

noun

  1. a desert plateau in the southern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).


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Their feedback loop goes way back: Ma’s wavy Ordos Museum in China’s Inner Mongolia was the reason Lucas put him on his museum shortlist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2020

This turned out to be a room at the Ordos Hotel in Beijing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2016

After a visit to Ordos or Sanya, it is tempting to agree with Mr Chanos that China has overinvested from its northern steppe to its southern shores.

From Economist • May 24, 2012

Chinese and foreign media seized on Ordos as the prime example of wasteful and pointless government projects after the government built the sprawling new city of Kangbashi.

From Reuters • Dec. 2, 2011

This reconversion is the most prominent event in the Mongol history of Sanang Setzen, whose great-grandfather Khutuktai Setzen, Prince of the Ordos, was a chief agent in the movement.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

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