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.
Photo: M M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Xinjiang Museum
Museum
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum, or Xinjiang Museum, is located in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xinjiang Medical University
University
Xinjiang Medical University, formerly the Xinjiang Medical College, is a medical university in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Qianjin Lu Confucian temple
Place of worship
Urumqi Confucius Temple, or Urumqi Confucian Temple, is a Confucian temple located at No. Photo: HaziiDozen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zhong Tian Plaza
Building
China CITIC Bank Mansion, formerly Zhong Tian Plaza is a 59-floor/229-meter tall skyscraper in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
Urumqi
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Xinjiang, China
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city and city with millions of inhabitants
- Location: Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
Latitude 43.8244° or 43° 49' 27.9" north | Longitude 87.6139° or 87° 36' 50.1" east |
Population 3,520,000 | IATA airport code URC |
United Nations Location Code CN URM | Elevation 862 metres (2828 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 244081999 | GeoNames ID 1529102 |
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Urumqi
- Afrikaans: Ürümqi
- Albanian: Urumqi
- Arabic: Ürümqi
- Arabic: أورومتشي
- Armenian: Ուրումչի
- Asturian: Urumchi
- Azerbaijani: Urumçi
- Bashkir: Өрөмсө
- Basque: Ürümqi
- Belarusian: Урумчы
- Bengali: উরুমকি
- Bengali: উরুমচি
- Bengali: উরুমছি
- Bosnian: Urumqi
- Breton: Ürümqi
- Bulgarian: Урумчи
- Catalan: Ürümqi
- Cebuano: Ürümqi
- Chechen: Урумчи
- Chinese: Wūlǔmùqí
- Chinese: Ürümqi
- Chinese: Ürümqi Chhī
- Chinese: 乌鲁木齐
- Chinese: 乌鲁木齐市
- Chinese: 烏魯木齊
- Chinese: 烏魯木齊市
- Chinese: 迪化
- Chuvash: Урумчи
- Croatian: Urumqi
- Czech: Urumči
- Danish: Ürümqi
- Dutch: Urumqi
- Dutch: Ürümqi
- English: Dihua
- English: Tihwa
- English: Wulumuqi
- English: Ürümqi
- Esperanto: Urumĉio
- Estonian: Ürümqi
- Finnish: Ürümqi
- French: Ürümqi
- Gan Chinese: 乌鲁木齐
- Georgian: ურუმჩი
- German: Urumchi
- German: Urumqi
- German: Urumqui
- German: Urumtschi
- German: Wulumuqi
- German: Wulumutschi
- German: Ürümqi
- Greek: Ουρούμκι
- Greek: Ουρούμτσι
- Gujarati: ઉરુમ્કી
- Hakka Chinese: Ürümchi-sṳ
- Hausa: Ürümchi-sṳ
- Hebrew: אורומצ'י
- Hebrew: אורומצי
- Hindi: उरुमची
- Hungarian: Ürümcsi
- Icelandic: Ürümqi
- Indonesian: Urumqi
- Indonesian: Ürümqi
- Irish: Ürümqi
- Italian: Ürümqi
- Japanese: ウルムチ
- Japanese: ウルムチ市
- Kannada: ಉರೂಮ್ಚಿ
- Kannada: ಯುರುಮ್ಚಿ
- Kazakh: Үрімжі
- Kazakh: Үрімжі қаласы
- Kikuyu: Ürümqi
- Kirghiz: Үрүмчү
- Korean: 디화
- Korean: 우루무치
- Korean: 우루무치 시
- Korean: 우루무치시
- Korean: 위륌치
- Kurdish: Urumçi
- Ladino: Ürümqi
- Latin: Ürümqi
- Latvian: Urumči
- Lezghian: Урумчи
- Literary Chinese: 烏魯木齊市
- Lithuanian: Urumčis
- Macedonian: Вулумуќи
- Macedonian: Дихуа
- Macedonian: Урумчи
- Macedonian: Урумќи
- Malagasy: Ürümqi
- Malay: Urumchi
- Malay: Wulumuqi
- Malay: Ürümqi
- Marathi: उरुम्छी
- Mazanderani: اورومچی
- Min Dong Chinese: Ürümqi
- Min Dong Chinese: Ŭ-lū-mŭk-cà̤
- Min Nan Chinese: Ürümqi-chhī
- Mongolian: Өрөмч
- Mongolian: Өрөмч хот
- Norwegian: Urumqi
- Norwegian: Ürümqi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ürümqi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ürümqi
- Occitan (post 1500): Ürümqi
- Ossetian: Урумчи
- Panjabi: ਉਰੂਮਕੀ
- Persian: اورومچی
- Polish: Urumczi
- Portuguese: Urumqi
- Portuguese: Ürümqi
- Romanian: Urumqi
- Romanian: Ürümqi
- Russia Buriat: Үрэмшэ
- Russian: Дихуа
- Russian: Урумчи
- Scots: Ürümqi
- Serbian: Урумћи
- Serbo-Croatian: Ürümqi
- Sicilian: Urumqi
- Sinhala: උරුම්කි
- Slovak: Urumči
- Slovenian: Urumči
- South Azerbaijani: اورومچی
- Spanish: Urumchi
- Spanish: Wūlǔmùqí
- Spanish: Ürümqi
- Swedish: Ürümqi
- Tagalog: Ürümqi
- Tajik: Урумчи
- Tamil: உருமுச்சி
- Tamil: உறும்ட்சீ
- Tatar: Öremçe
- Tatar: Өремче
- Telugu: ఉరుమ్చి
- Thai: อุรุมชี
- Tibetan: ཨུ་རུམ་ཆི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Turkish: Urumçi
- Turkmen: Urumçi
- Uighur: Ürümchi
- Uighur: Ürümchi shehiri
- Uighur: Ürümchi shehri
- Uighur: Ürümqi shehiri
- Uighur: Үрүмчи
- Uighur: ئۈرۈمچى
- Uighur: ئۈرۈمچى شەھىرى
- Uighur: ئۈرۈمچی
- Ukrainian: Урумчі
- Urdu: ارومچی
- Uzbek: Urumchi
- Vietnamese: Ô Lỗ Mộc Tề
- Vietnamese: Ürümqi
- Waray (Philippines): Ürümqi
- Welsh: Ürümqi
- Western Frisian: Ürümqi
- Western Panjabi: ارومچی
- Wu Chinese: 烏魯木齊
- Yakut: Үрүмчи
- Yue Chinese: 烏魯木齊
- Zhuang: Vuhlujmuzciz
- Zhuang: Ürümqi
- Dikhua
- Ouroumtchi
- Ti-hua-ch’eng
- Ti-hua-hsien
- Ti-hua-shih
- Ti-hua
- Tihwafu
- Tikhua
- Tikhva
- Urumptsi
- Urumtsi
- Urumutsi
- Urunchi
- Wu-lu-mu-ch’i-shih
- Wu-lu-mu-ch’i
- Wurumch’ih
- Ürümqi Shi
Other Places Named Urumqi
- Ürümqi CountyXinjiang, China
- WulumuqiXinjiang, China
- Ürümqi southRailway station, Xinjiang, China
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Ürümqi railway stationRailroad station
- Urumqi Pap HeliportHeliport
- Ergong ZhanRailroad station
- Hongyanchi ShuikuReservoir, 12 km south
- Huoche XizhanRailroad station, 13 km west
- Ürümqi Diwopu International AirportAerodrome, 14 km northwest
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