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The Övör Mongol Atlas is an interactive historical atlas of Inner Mongolia (Övör Mongol), covering the period from the late Qing dynasty through the early People's Republic of China — roughly the 1900s to the 1950s. It focuses on the people, places, political entities, and events of that period, including the Inner Mongolian autonomy movements of the 1930s and the Japanese-sponsored Mengjiang territory.

Entries are built from scholarly and archival sources: academic monographs, journal articles, contemporary press coverage, and primary accounts by participants and outside observers. Where sources disagree — on a date, a name, a location, or the interpretation of an event — this atlas records the disagreement rather than silently picking a side. Unresolved conflicts are noted as such in the relevant entries, along with what each source claims and why the conflict can't currently be settled.

See the Editorial Principles page for more on how entries are written and sourced.