Ürümqi

Ürümqi
Chinese name
Semplifeed Cheenese	乌鲁木齐
Tradeetional Cheenese	烏魯木齊
Hanyu Pinyin	Wūlǔmùqí
Leeteral meanin	beautiful pasture
Transcriptions
Staundart Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wūlǔmùqí
Wade–Giles	Wu1-lu3-mu4-ch'i2
IPA	[úlùmûtɕʰǐ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	wu1lou5muk6cai4
Tihwa (Dihua)
Cheenese	迪化
Hanyu Pinyin	Dǐhuà
Leeteral meanin	Tae Enlichten
Transcriptions
Staundart Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dǐhuà
Wade–Giles	Ti3-hua4
IPA	[tìxwâ]
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	[Үлэмжийн Хот] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
Mongolie script	ᠦᠯᠡᠮᠴᠢ ᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئۈرۈمچى
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	Ürümchi
Yengi Yeziⱪ	Ürümqi
SASM/GNC	Ürümqi
Siril Yëziqi	Үрүмчи
Uyghur IPA	pronounced [yrymˈtʃi]

Ürümqi
Ürümqi; ئۈرۈمچى; 乌鲁木齐
	Prefectur-level ceety
	乌鲁木齐市 · ئۈرۈمچى شەھىرى
	Frae tap: A panoramic view o Ürümqi's CBD, Reid Muntain (Hong Shan), Ürümqi Nicht Mercat, an a view o Tian Shan frae Ürümqi
	Ürümqi (reid) in Xinjiang (orange)
	Ürümqi Location o the ceety centre in Xinjiang
	Coordinates: 43°49′30″N 87°36′00″E / 43.82500°N 87.60000°E
Kintra	Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
Region	Xinjiang
Coonty-level diveesions	8
Govrenment
• CPC Committee Secretary	Zhu Hailun
• Mayor	Jerla Isamudin (吉尔拉·衣沙木丁 / جەرۇللاھ ھېسامىدىن)
Area
• Prefectur-level ceety	14577 km2 (5,628 sq mi)
• Urban	10245 km2 (3,956 sq mi)
• Metro	5057 km2 (1,953 sq mi)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefectur-level ceety	3,112,559
• Density	210/km2 (550/sq mi)
• Urban	3,029,372
• Urban density	300/km2 (770/sq mi)
• Metro	2,988,715
• Metro density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	De jure: Cheenae Staundart (UTC+8); De facto: Ürümqi Time (UTC+6)
Postal code	830000
Area code(s)	991
License plate prefixes	新A
GDP (2008)	CNY 102 billion
- per capita	CNY 43,211
ISO 3166-2	CN-65-01
Website	urumqi.gov.cn (in Cheenese)

Ürümqi or Ürümchi (Uyghur: ئۈرۈمچی‎, ULY: Ürümchi; Cheenese: 乌鲁木齐; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí), formerly Dihua (Cheenese: 迪化; pinyin: Dǐhuà, 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,^[2] 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.