Winters in Oroqen Autonomous Banner are extremely cold.
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Home to the 鄂伦春 (Oroqen) - one of China's smallest officially recognized minorities (~8,000 people), traditionally Tungusic forest hunters of the Greater Khingan Range. Banned from hunting in 1996 to protect wildlife; now mostly settled.
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旗 ('banner') is a county-level administrative unit unique to Inner Mongolia, inherited from the Qing-era Mongol military banner system. Other levels keep the standard names 县, 市, 区.
