Dzungarian
Dzungarian is in Xinjiang in China. It is the area north of Tian Mountain running through the middle of Xinjiang Province. It consists of Altay Prefecture, Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Tacheng Prefecture, Karamay Prefecture, Shihezi City, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Wujiaqu City, Urumqi Prefecture, Turpan Prefecture, Hami Prefecture and Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture…Photo: 陈琛, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Urumqi and Turpan.
Urumqi
Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, administered by the People's Republic of China. The city has a population of around 2.5 million and is in the Tian Shan mountains.
Turpan
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Turpan or Turfan is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of 69,759 km2 and a population of 693,988.
Karamay
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Karamay is a city in Xinjiang Province in China. It is famous as an oil base for drilling in the surrounding desert. The oil industry contributes to the city's wealth which is evident in the clean and spacious streets.
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Yining
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Yining is a city in the Xinjiang Province in China. Though the official Chinese name is Yining, the city is almost never referred to by that name even by the Chinese who live there.
Shihezi
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Shihezi is a city in Xinjiang Province in China. Built in the Junggar desert from 1954, it has more trees per acre than any other city in China. It is a quiet little city with friendly people that rarely sees tourists.
Aletai
Aletai is a city in Xinjiang Province of China. Go 100 km or so in any direction except south and you hit a border: Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, Kazakhstan to the west.
Hami
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Hami or Kumul, now Yizhou District, is a town on the Northern branch of the Silk Road in Xinjiang Province in China.
Sayram Lake
Sayram Lake, also known as Santai Haizi or historically the "Clean Sea", is an endorheic freshwater lake in the northern Tianshan Mountains at Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, less than 50 km from the border with Kazakhstan.
Tianshan Tianchi National Park
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Tianshan Tianchi National Park is in Xinjiang, in North West China. It's listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Burqin
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Burqin is a city in the northern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, near the Russian border. Hemu Village and Kanas Scenic area are located in Burqin, and it begins to snow during September-October every year, is a good place for skiing.
Hanas National Nature Reserve
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Kanas National Nature Reserve is in Xinjiang Province of China. Kanas is also called Hanas which is the name used by local Kazakhs. Kanas is the named used by local Tuvans, and has been recognised by local government as the official name.
Dzungarian
- Type: Depression
- Description: geographical region in northwest China corresponding to the northern half of Xinjiang
- Also known as: “Beijiang”, “Chun-ka-erh”, “Chun-ka-erh P’en-ti”, “Chun-ka-erh-p’en”, “Dzhungariya”, “Dzungar”, “Dzungaria”, “Dzungarian Basin”, “Eleutharia”, “Jungar”, “Jungaria”, “Kingdom of the Eleuths”, “Northern Xinjiang”, “Realm of the Eleuths”, “Sungaria”, and “Zungharia”
- Category: region
- Location: Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dzungarian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونغاريا”
- Aragonese: “Dchungaria”
- Aragonese: “Dzhungaria”
- Armenian: “Ջունգարական հարթավայր”
- Asturian: “Zungaria”
- Azerbaijani: “Cunqariya”
- Basque: “Dzungaria”
- Belarusian: “Джунгарыя”
- Bulgarian: “Джунгария”
- Catalan: “Dzungaria”
- Catalan: “Dzungària”
- Catalan: “Jungaria”
- Catalan: “Jungària”
- Catalan: “Sungaria”
- Catalan: “Sungars”
- Catalan: “Zungaria”
- Catalan: “Zungària”
- Chinese: “准噶尔地区”
- Chinese: “北疆”
- Chinese: “新疆北部”
- Chinese: “準噶爾地區”
- Croatian: “Džungarija”
- Croatian: “Džungurija”
- Czech: “Džungarie”
- Czech: “Džungárie”
- Danish: “Dzungaria”
- Dutch: “Dzjoengarije”
- Dutch: “Jungaria”
- Dutch: “Tsoengarije”
- Esperanto: “Ĝungario”
- Esperanto: “Ĝungarujo”
- Esperanto: “Junggar”
- Esperanto: “Norda Ŝinĝjango”
- Finnish: “Dzhungaria”
- Finnish: “Dzungaria”
- Finnish: “Džungaria”
- Finnish: “Dzungarian allas”
- Finnish: “Jungaria”
- Finnish: “Jungarian allas”
- Finnish: “Junggarin allas”
- French: “Djoungarie”
- French: “Dzoungar”
- French: “Dzoungarie”
- Galician: “Dzungaria”
- Galician: “Xiniang Norte”
- Galician: “Zungaria”
- Georgian: “ჯუნგარის ვაკე”
- German: “Dschungarei”
- German: “Dsungarei”
- German: “Dsungarisches Becken”
- German: “Ost-Dsungarei”
- Greek: “Τζουνγκαρία”
- Hebrew: “דזונגריה”
- Hindi: “ज़ुन्गारिया”
- Hungarian: “Dzsungária”
- Indonesian: “Dzungaria”
- Italian: “Jungaria”
- Italian: “Zungaria”
- Japanese: “ジュンガリア”
- Korean: “중가리아”
- Latvian: “Džungārija”
- Lithuanian: “Džiungarija”
- Lithuanian: “Džungarija”
- Macedonian: “Џунгарија”
- Mongolian: “Зүүнгар нутаг”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Djungarene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dzungaria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dzungariabekkenet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jungaria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Junggar Pendi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Junggarbekkenet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sungaria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zungaria”
- Norwegian: “Dzungaria”
- Persian: “جونغارستان”
- Persian: “جونغاریه”
- Polish: “Dżungaria”
- Portuguese: “Dzungaria”
- Portuguese: “Zungária”
- Russian: “Джунгария”
- Russian: “Джунгарская впадина”
- Russian: “Джунгарская равнина”
- Russian: “Зуунгар”
- Serbian: “Џунгарија”
- Slovak: “Džungarsko”
- Slovak: “Džungársko”
- Slovenian: “Džungarija”
- Spanish: “Cuenca Junggar”
- Spanish: “Dzhungaria”
- Spanish: “Dzungaria”
- Spanish: “Zungaria”
- Swedish: “Dsjungariet”
- Swedish: “Dsungariet”
- Swedish: “Dzjungariet”
- Swedish: “Dzungariet”
- Swedish: “Dzunggariet”
- Tatar: “Cuñğariä”
- Turkish: “Cungarya”
- Turkish: “Çungarya”
- Ukrainian: “Джунгарія”
- Uzbek: “Jungʻariya tekisligi”
- Venetian: “Zungària”
- Vietnamese: “Bồn địa Dzungarian”
- Vietnamese: “Dzungaria”
- Welsh: “Swngaria”
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