Psst. Wanna by a city?
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UPDATED: Friday, June 26, 2026 17:19
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
It would make a great post apocalyptic film set, or a dream paintball playground.
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Is that where they shot the Miranda scenes ? If not, it would have been a great place to do so. 
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This is a great idea. I mean, think how expensive it is to empty a city for a movie. Miranda, the movie. Now with more reaver zombies. Starring Summer Glau, in 3d.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
So is it China or Mongolia. You're saying both, it must be one or the other since China doesn't own Mongolia. The idea of an abandoned city is just bizarre.
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Inner Mongolia is a province of northern China. Outer Mongolia is another name for the independent country of Mongolia. Everything north of the great wall was Mongolia when it was built, and I guess still is. It's full of Mongols. They ride on horseback and speak another language, overall, the chinese people consider them romantic, the govt. does not. In crouching tiger hidden dragon, the boyfriend is a mongol.
Inner refers to "inside of China"
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Thanks DT, so its technically part of China but it is like Mongolia? I have this thing about Mongolia, not quite as extreme as my thing for Ireland, but still a thing.
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It is Mongolia, but it is not the nation of mongolia. The people are mongol, speak a mongol language and write in the mongol script. It's absolutely huge. It was conquered in the mid 17th century by an out of power family who used it to get back into power. It would be later used by Mao Tse Dong for the same purpose.
In theory Mongolia and China are separated by the Great Wall, built in the 3rd century BC. Inner Mongolia is that territory north of the wall to the edge of the current chinese national border.
Reality is more complicated. There were many efforts to move the wall, and then many efforts to conquer Mongolia. What I suspect will ultimately happen is that when communist china falls, inner mongolia will split off and join the rest of mongolia.
At any rate, now it has a massive ghost town. The cost of building the thing must have been phenomenal. Looks nice, though. One of the flaws in chinese central planning is that they think an even population density would be ideal, and that people will enact it if encouraged. In reality the chinese people all want to live in the southeast.
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I hope inner Mongolia goes back and joins regular Mongolia someday, that would be nice, since they still speak and write Mongolian, it wouldn't be such a hard transition.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
I hope inner Mongolia goes back and joins regular Mongolia someday, that would be nice, since they still speak and write Mongolian, it wouldn't be such a hard transition.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
Empires are like that. They also have Tibet of course, and the Uyghurs, who I guess want to be called something like uyghurstan, but they're called xinjiang at the moment, not a name they care for because it is in mandarin rather than their native tongue. But my guess is the first thing the chinese will give up on is one of their external puppet states; north korea. (for a much less political reason: south korea has a labor shortage and 15 times the wage rate of north korea, so it's worth it to them to just buy the entire country) Ironically, this would give us a nuclear armed south korea.
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Not as terrible as I thought it would be
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ordos_City
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