Ürümqi
See also: Urumqi
English

Map including ÜRÜMQI (DMA, 1990)
Etymology
Borrowed from Uyghur ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi) via its official SASM/GNC/SRC romanization. See there for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʊˈrʊmt͡ʃi/, /uːˈɹuːmt͡ʃi/
Audio (CA) (file)
Proper noun
Ürümqi
- A prefecture-level city, the capital of Xinjiang, China.
- 1988, Domrös, Manfred; Peng Gongbing, “Circulation”, in The Climate of China, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
- As also proved from statistical figures, different wind conditions are established over some marginal parts of China. Harbin/15, which records 50% of all directions from SE, S and SW, underlines atypical wind conditions which exist over northeastern China. The same is true for Lhasa/239 which experiences 44% of all directions from NE, E and SE, and Ürümqi/269 which records 38% of all winds with a southern component. These three stations demonstrate rare wind conditions which do not coincide with the typical northern winds in winter.
- 2010 March 4, MacManus, Richard, “China's Twitter Clones”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 April 2023, Technology:
- Fanfou, Jiwai and Digu were some of the first Twitter clones to become successful in China. However all three - plus Twitter itself - were blocked by the Chinese government in July 2009, due to their usage during the uprisings in Ürümqi.
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- A county of Ürümqi city, Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Wulumuqi, Wulumuchi, Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
- (historical) Dihua, Ti-hua, Tihua, Tihwa
Translations
Capital of Xinjiang
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Further reading
- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)
- “Ürümqi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Uyghur
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