Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou likewise known by a few different names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei region in Northern China, circumscribing Beijing toward the southeast, Inner Mongolia toward the north and west, and Shanxi toward the southwest. At the 2010 enumeration, its populace was 4,345,485 occupants on 36,861.56 square kilometers, isolated into 17 Counties and Districts. The developed region made of Qiaoxi, Qiaodong Districts and Wanquan County generally being conurbated had 838,978 occupants in 2010 on 1,412.7 km2.

Because of its situation on a few essential transport corridors, it is a basic transport hub for movement among Hebei and Inner Mongolia and interfacing northwest China, Mongolia, and Beijing. Zhangjiakou will be one of the host urban areas at the 2022 Winter Olympics. In August 1211, amid the Battle of Yehuling, Genghis Khan's 90,000 in number power wrecked the 450,000 in number Jin administration army. The water-rare city was verifiably the main northern door in the Great Wall to China for Europeans going along the Northern Tea Road or Nicolae Milescu, regularly through the Juyong Pass.

From somewhere around 1571 it was an essential pony advertise for Mongolian mounts imported into China. From 1727 it was a vital station for the Kyakhta exchange among Russia and China. In early harvest time long queues of camels would roll in from all quarters for the movement of the tea chests from "Kalgan" to Kyakhta over the Gobi Desert. Each parade generally made three adventures in the winter. In the 19th century some Russian shippers had perpetual homes and distribution centers simply outside the door.