Urumchi

British

/ uːˈruːmtʃɪ /

noun

Former name: Tihwa. a city in NW China, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: trading centre on a N route between China and central Asia. Pop: 1 562 000 (2005 est)

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Traffic in Urumchi this fall was back again on the left side of the road, as in Central China.

From Time Magazine Archive

A 350-mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north.

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General Chu Shao-liang flew to Urumchi for the first exploratory talks in March 1942.

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An assembly plant was erected at Urumchi, where Russian equipment was put together for transfer to China.

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Last year the first caravans left Feng-chen with wireless equipment for the eighteen hundred mile journey across Mongolia to Urumchi in the very heart of central Asia.

From Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Roy Chapman Andrews

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