Urumchi
Britishnoun
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At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples�Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border.
From Time Magazine Archive
An assembly plant was erected at Urumchi, where Russian equipment was put together for transfer to China.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Andrews, Roy Chapman
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