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Urumchi
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Urumchi or Ürümqi (Uyghur: Ürümchi,
pinyin: Wulumuqí), with a population of about 2.1 million,
is the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the
People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country.
It is also farther away from sea than any
other large city in the world.
Two thousand years ago Ürümqi was an important
town on the northern route of the Silk Road, a vast network
of trade routes that also facilitated cultural
exchanges throughout Eurasia.
During the 22nd year of Emperor Zhenguan's reign in the Tang
Dynasty, 648 A.D., the Tang government set up the town of
Luntai in the ancient town seat of Urabo, 10 kilometers
from the southern suburb of present-day Ürümqi.
The Ancient Luntai Town was a seat of local government, and
collected taxes from the caravans along the
northern route of the Silk Road.
During the Qing Dynasty (1763 A.D.) Emperor Qianlong named
the expanded town of Luntai "Dihua" (pinyin: Díhua; Manchu: Wen de
dahabure fu), meaning "to enlighten."
In 1884, Emperor Guang Xu established Xinjiang as a Province,
with Di Hua as its capital.
Following the founding of the People's Republic of China, on
February 1, 1954, the city was renamed Ürümqi, meaning "
beautiful pasture" in the Mongolian
language of the Junggar tribe.
Located in a green oasis between the lofty ice-capped Bogda Peak,
the vast Salt Lake in the east, the rolling pine-covered
Southern hill and the alternating fields and sand dunes of
Zunggar Basin in the northwest, Ürümqi has an
average elevation of 800 meters.
The largest city in the western half of China, Ürümqi
has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most
remote city from any sea in the world at a distance of about
1,400 miles (2500 km) from the nearest coastline (Ürümqi
being the city closest to the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility).
The city has an area of 10,989 km².
For a more information about
Urumchi see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urumchi)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.
Hui Chin and I really enjoyed our stay in Urumchi.
We spent many hours walking about town, it is a very
large and well developed city.
The city has numerous interesting and beautiful sights.
Red Hill with the Jade Emperor Temple, the Great Buddha
Dipper Palace, the Ksitigabha Temple and many
more other attractions.
Southern Mosque.
Tartar Mosque.
Hongshan Park Pagoda.
Night (International) Market.
I have taken hundreds of photos here in Urumchi and
even went as far as Turpan and many places in around
Turpan, including many place on the way to and back
from Turpan (more about at my Turpan page) on one of my
new 2 GB SD Memory Cards. A lot of photos can be taken
on a 2 GB card and while all seemed ok at the time,
on my return home I found out that while the photos
seemed to exist with properties (223 Kb)and jpg icons etc.
they can't be viewed. The many different programs
I've tried most comes up with a very similar message
or nothing at all.
A few photos taken shortly after our arrival and
on another card turned out, although they were taken through
the bus window are below.
I have lost some very interesting, unusual and irreplacable
pictures of Turpan, Urumchi, and Bishkek in Kyrgizstan and pictures
of the countrysides of Kyrgizstan and Kazakstan
on another similar card.
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Now altough we were there and had our visual and phisical
experiences, I have to take advantage of using Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia's
resources with our greatful thanks. Author.
Urumuchi 2007
You can click on these photos for an enlargement.
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