Ürümqi County is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
,
Northwest China, it is under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
During the Republican era, many of China ...
of
Ürümqi
Ürümqi ( ; also spelled Ürümchi or without umlauts), formerly known as Dihua (also spelled Tihwa), is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China. Ürümqi developed its ...
, the capital of Xinjiang. It contains an area of 4,601 km² and according to the 2002 census has a population of 80,000.
According to Xingjian geographic graduate school of Chinese Section College, the
geographical midpoint of Asia
The location of the geographical centre of Asia (russian: Центр Азии; tyv, Азияның Төвү; ) depends on the definition of the borders of Asia, mainly whether remote islands are included to define the extreme points of Asia, and ...
is located within the county.
, the glacier closest to an urban area in the world is also in the county.
References
External links
* http://www.wlmqx.gov.cn/ - Ürümqi County official website
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Ürümqi
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