Landforms of Ningxia

640000 km² plateau around the Wei River valley and the southern half of the Ordos Loop of the Yellow River in central China, covering almost all of Shaanxi and Shanxi and parts of Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia

mountain range in China

250px|right|thumb|The Hetao region's three sections:"West Loop" (brown), "Back Loop" (light brown), and "Front Loop" (yellow) Hetao () is a C-shaped region in northwestern China consisting of a collection of flood plains stretching from the banks of the northern half of the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River, that forms the river's entire middle section. The region makes up the northern margin of the Ordos Basin, bounded in the west by the Helan Mountains, the north by the Yin Mountains, the east by the northern portion of Lüliang Mountains, and the south by the