Ürümqi

Ürümqi or Ürümchi (; ), formerly Dihua (, Wade-Giles: Tihwa), is the caipital o Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, in the northwast o the kintra.

Wi an urban population o ower 2.5 million fowk, Ürümqi, whose name means "bonnie pasture" in the Mongolie leid o the Dzungar fowk, is the lairgest ceety in Cheenae's wastren interior. Since the 1990s, Ürümqi haes developed economically an nou serves as a regional transport node an commercial centre.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Ürümqi is twinned wi:
 23px Osan, Sooth Korea
 23px Orem, Unitit States
 23px Peshawar, Pakistan
 23px Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
 23px Almaty, Kazakhstan
 23px Chelyabinsk, Roushie

 References 


Category:Populatit places alang the Silk Road
Category:Ceeties in Central Asie
Category:Populatit places in Xinjiang
Category:Prefectur-level diveesions o Xinjiang
Category:Provincial caipitals in Cheenae