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Shangdu (here spelled Ciandu, as Marco Polo spelled it) on the French map of Asia made by Sanson d'Abbeville, geographer of King Louis XIV, dated 1650.It also shows a Xandu east of Cambalu, where English maps placed it.
Shangdu County (Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠩᠳᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ; Chinese: 商都县) is a county of south-central Inner Mongolia, China. It is under the administration of Ulanqab City and has an area of 4,353 square kilometres (1,681 sq mi), and in 2020 had about 173,000 inhabitants.
Xanadu / Shangdu (上都; Shàngdū; 'Upper Capital'), located northwest of present-day Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia, China, was the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty. After the fall of the Yuan dynasty, it briefly became the capital of the Northern Yuan dynasty between 1368 and 1369. It was destroyed in 1369.
Kublai Khan's summer capital Shangdu (aka Xanadu) was located near present-day Dolonnor. During that time Ongud and Khunggirad peoples dominated the area of what is now Inner Mongolia. After the Yuan dynasty was overthrown by the Han-led Ming dynasty in 1368, the Ming captured parts of Inner Mongolia including Shangdu and Yingchang.
Plain Blue Banner [2] (Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠯᠤᠭᠤᠨ ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ, pronounced [ʃʊˈɮʊːɴ xɵx χɞˈʃʊ]; Chinese: 正蓝旗), alternatively Zhenglan Banner in Chinese or Xulun Hoh Banner in Mongolian, is a banner of Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Hebei province to the south.
Shangdu, the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre , which he is to transport to Shangdu , the summer ...
English: Location map of Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 141 %. True scale parallel: 45°00' N. Geographic limits of the map: