Otog Banner


Otog Banner is a banner of southwestern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Ordos City, and borders Otog Front Banner to the southwest and Uxin Banner to the southeast.

Geography and climate

Otog Banner is located in the southwest of Inner Mongolia and the west of Ordos City's administration, with a latitude range of 38° 18' to 40° 11' N and a longitude range of 106° 41' to 108° 54', spanning north to south and west to east. Its total area is.
Otog Banner has a monsoon-influenced, continental cold desert climate, with long, cold and very dry winters, and hot, slightly wetter summers. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is. Only during the summer months does significant rainfall occur, and there is an average of of precipitation annually. There are 3,000 hours of sunshine and 122 frost-free days per year.