Baotou

• (from Wade–Giles) Pao-t'ou
• Paotow

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 包頭／包头 (Bāotóu).

• IPA^(key): /baʊ.toʊ/

Baotou

1. A prefecture-level city, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • [1918 April, Gilbert, Rodney, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia‎, volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:

     Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.]

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baotou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 3

Baotou ?

1. Baotou (a prefecture-level city, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China)