内蒙古自治区位于中国北部边疆，由东北向西南斜伸，呈狭长形，东西直线距离2400公里，南北跨度1700公里，横跨东北、华北、西北三大区。土地总面积118.3万平方公里，占全国总面积的12.3%，在全国各省、市、自治区中名列第三位。东南西与8省区毗邻，北与蒙古国、俄罗斯接壤，国境线长4200公里。

        内蒙古旅游资源丰富。如：丰富多彩的民族文化，草原风光，大兴安岭原始森林，黄河景观，神奇的响沙湾，众多湖泊和温泉，还有成吉思汗陵，昭君墓，古长城，阴山古刹五当召，五塔寺，百灵庙，东汉壁画墓群等古迹。

Inner Mongolia, China's northern border autonomous region, features a long, narrow strip of land sloping from northeast to southwest. It stretches 2,400 km from west to east and 1,700 km from north to south. Inner Mongolia traverses between northeast, north, and northwest China. The third largest among China's provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the region covers an area of 1.18 million sq km, or 12.3% of the country's territory. It neighbors eight provinces and regions in its south, east and west and Mongolia and Russia in the north, with a borderline of 4,200 km.

Inner Mongolia is rich in tourist attractions: Colorful ethnic culture, grassland scenery, the virgin forests in the Greater Hinggan Mountains, grand views along the Yellow River, the majestic Xiangsha Gulf, rivers and lakes, and springs. Inner Mongolia is home to the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the Zhaojun Tomb, ancient Great Wall, Wudang Monastery at the bottom of the Yinshan Mountains, Wuta Monastery, Bailing Temple, and tomb murals dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220).

• culture [´kʌltʃə]   n.修养；文化；饲养   (初中英语单词)
• temple [´tempəl]   n.庙宇；寺院；太阳穴   (初中英语单词)
• northeast [,nɔ:θ´i:st]   n.东北 a.东北的   (高中英语单词)
• southwest [,sauθ´west]   n.&a.西南(方)(的)   (高中英语单词)
• northwest [,nɔ:θ´west]   n.&ad.西北(部)   (高中英语单词)
• tourist [´tuərist]   n.游客，观光者   (高中英语单词)
• scenery [´si:nəri]   n.舞台布景   (高中英语单词)
• virgin [´və:dʒin]   a.处女(般)的 n.处女   (高中英语单词)
• majestic [mə´dʒestik]   a.雄伟的；崇高的   (高中英语单词)
• monastery [´mɔnəstri]   n.修道院；庙宇   (高中英语单词)
• dynasty [´dinəsti]   n.王朝；朝代   (英语四级单词)