Wulumuchi
See also: Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
English
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 烏魯木齊／乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-lu³-mu⁴-chʻi².
Proper noun
Wulumuchi
- Alternative form of Wulumuqi (Ürümqi)
- 1965, Tupper, Harmon, To the Great Ocean, Little, Brown & Company, LCCN 65-10900, OCLC 238049, OL 13576898M, pages 432-433:
- The Trans-Mongolian connects at Chining with a Chinese railway that has been built, at the date of this writing, in a westerly direction as far as Wulumuchi (or Urumchi), capital of the Chinese province of Sinkiang.
- 1979, Norris McWhirter, editor, Guinness Book of World Records, Bantam Books, →ISBN, OCLC 4943047, OL 24379794M, page 137:
- Remotest Land. There is an unpinpointed spot in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen (desert), northern Sinkiang, China, that is more than 1,500 miles from the open sea in any direction. The nearest large town to this point is Wulumuchi (Urumchi) to its south.
- 2008, Lindesay, William, The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2008007122, OCLC 473941553, OL 16505772M, page 112:
- Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.
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Further reading
- Wulumuchi at OneLook Dictionary Search