NW China
Xinjiang
Dzungarian

Urumqi

Urumqi is the capital of the , 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.
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  • Type: City with 4,050,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
  • Also known as: “Dihuacheng”, “Dikhua”, “Ouroumtchi”, “Ouroumtsi”, “Ti-hua”, “Ti-hua-ch’eng”, “Ti-hua-ch’êng”, “Ti-hua-cheng”, “Ti-hua-hsien”, “Ti-hua-shih”, “Tihwa”, “Tihwafu”, “Tikhua”, “Tikhva”, “UEruemqi”, “Urumchi”, “Urumi City”, “Urumptsi”, “Ürümqi”, “Urumtsi”, “Urumutsi”, “Urunchi”, “Wu-lu-mu-ch’i”, “Wu-lu-mu-ch’i Shih”, “Wu-lu-mu-ch’i-shih”, “Wu-lu-mu-chi”, “Wu-lu-mu-chi Shih”, “Wu-lu-mu-chi-shih”, “Wulumuqi”, “Wulumuqi Shi”, “Wulumuqishi”, “Wurumch’ih”, and “乌市”
  • Historically known as: “Dihua”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Urumqi Library and Xinjiang Museum.

Library
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The Ürümqi City Library is a public library situated in the , Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, . The Urumqi City Library was established in 1979, although it lacked a permanent location until it relocated to its current building in 2003.

Museum
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The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, or simply the , is a museum in the of Ürümqi, the capital of , .

University
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, formerly the Xinjiang Medical College, is a medical university in Ürümqi, the capital of the of the People's Republic of China.

Urumqi

Latitude
43.8244° or 43° 49′ 28″ north
Longitude
87.6139° or 87° 36′ 50″ east
Population
4,050,000
Elevation
862 metres (2,828 feet)
IATA airport code
URC
United Nations Location Code
CN URM
Open location code
8MM9RJF7+QH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081999
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1529102
Wiki­data ID
Q16959
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Urumqi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Urumqi”
  • Afrikaans: “Ürümqi”
  • Albanian: “Urumqi”
  • Arabic: “أورومتشي”
  • Armenian: “Ուրումչի”
  • Asturian: “Urumchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Urumçi”
  • Balinese: “Ürümqi”
  • Bashkir: “Өрөмсө”
  • Basque: “Ürümqi”
  • Basque: “Urumtxi”
  • Belarusian: “Урумчы”
  • Bengali: “উরুমকি”
  • Bengali: “উরুমচি”
  • Bengali: “উরুমছি”
  • Bosnian: “Urumqi”
  • Breton: “Ürümqi”
  • Bulgarian: “Урумчи”
  • Catalan: “Ürümchi”
  • Catalan: “Ürümqi”
  • Catalan: “Ürümtxi”
  • Cebuano: “Ürümqi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئورومچی”
  • Chechen: “Урумчи”
  • Chinese: “Ürümqi Chhī”
  • Chinese: “Wūlǔmùqí Shì”
  • Chinese: “Wūlǔmùqí”
  • 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” (historical)
  • Chuvash: “Урумчи”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ürümçi”
  • Croatian: “Urumqi”
  • Croatian: “Ürümqi”
  • Czech: “Urumči”
  • Danish: “Ürümqi”
  • Dutch: “Urumqi”
  • Dutch: “Ürümqi”
  • Esperanto: “Urumĉio”
  • Estonian: “Ürümqi”
  • Finnish: “Ürümqi”
  • French: “Ürümqi”
  • Galician: “Ürümqi”
  • Gan Chinese: “乌鲁木齐”
  • Gan Chinese: “烏魯木齊”
  • Georgian: “ურუმჩი”
  • German: “Urumchi”
  • German: “Urumqi”
  • German: “Ürümqi”
  • German: “Urumqui”
  • German: “Urumtschi”
  • German: “Wulumuqi”
  • German: “Wulumutschi”
  • Greek: “Ουρούμκι”
  • Greek: “Ουρουμτσί”
  • Greek: “Ουρούμτσι”
  • Gujarati: “ઉરુમ્કી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ürümchi-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “אורומצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “אורומצי”
  • Hebrew: “אורומקי”
  • Hindi: “उरुमची”
  • Hungarian: “Ürümcsi”
  • Icelandic: “Urumqi”
  • Icelandic: “Ürümqi”
  • Indonesian: “Urumchi”
  • 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 қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Үрімжі”
  • Kikuyu: “Ürümqi”
  • Kirghiz: “Үрүмчү”
  • Korean: “디화”
  • Korean: “우루무치 시”
  • Korean: “우루무치”
  • Korean: “우루무치시”
  • Korean: “위륌치”
  • Kurdish: “Urumçi”
  • Kurdish: “Urumçî”
  • Ladino: “Ürümqi”
  • Latin: “Ürümqi”
  • Latvian: “Urumči”
  • Lezghian: “Урумчи”
  • Literary Chinese: “烏魯木齊市”
  • Lithuanian: “Urumčis”
  • Macedonian: “Вулумуќи”
  • Macedonian: “Дихуа”
  • Macedonian: “Урумќи”
  • Macedonian: “Урумчи”
  • Malagasy: “Ürümqi”
  • Malay: “Urumchi”
  • Malay: “Ürümqi”
  • Malay: “Wulumuqi”
  • Maltese: “Ürümqi”
  • Marathi: “उरुम्छी”
  • Mazanderani: “اورومچی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ŭ-lū-mŭk-cà̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ürümqi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ürümqi-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “დიჰუა”
  • Mingrelian: “ურუმჩი”
  • Mongolian: “Өрөмч хот”
  • Mongolian: “Өрөмч”
  • Mongolian: “ᠥᠷᠥᠮᠴᠢ”
  • Nepali: “उरुम्की”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ürümqi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ürümqi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ürümqi”
  • Norwegian: “Urumqi”
  • Norwegian: “Ürümqi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ürümqi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Yrymcīe”
  • Ossetian: “Урумчи”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰੁਮਚੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰੂਮਕੀ”
  • Persian: “اورومچی”
  • Polish: “Urumczi”
  • Portuguese: “Urumchi”
  • Portuguese: “Urumqi”
  • Portuguese: “Ürümqi”
  • Pushto: “اورومچي”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Urumqi”
  • Slovenian: “Ürümqi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورومچی”
  • Spanish: “Ouroumtsi”
  • Spanish: “Urumchi”
  • Spanish: “Urumqi”
  • 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”
  • Turkmen: “Ürümçi”
  • Uighur: “Ürümchi shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Ürümchi shehri”
  • Uighur: “Ürümchi”
  • Uighur: “Ürümqi shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Үрүмчи”
  • Uighur: “ئۈرۈمچى شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “ئۈرۈمچى”
  • Uighur: “ئۈرۈمچی”
  • Ukrainian: “Урумчі”
  • Urdu: “ارمچی”
  • Urdu: “اُرُمچی”
  • Urdu: “ارومچی”
  • Uzbek: “Urumchi”
  • Venetian: “Ürümqi”
  • Vietnamese: “Dihua”
  • Vietnamese: “Ô Lỗ Mộc Tề”
  • Vietnamese: “Tihwa”
  • Vietnamese: “Ürümqi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ürümqi”
  • Welsh: “Ürümqi”
  • Western Frisian: “Ürümqi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارمچی”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارومچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “烏魯木齊”
  • Yakut: “Үрүмчи”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏魯木齊”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏魯木齊市”
  • Zhuang: “Vuhlujmuzciz”

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