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Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏魯木齊/乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-lu³-mu⁴-chʻi².[1]
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Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
- Alternative form of Wulumuqi (Ürümqi)
1979, “Sin·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 714:It is officially known as the Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region and is also called Chinese Turkistan or Eastern Turkistan. The capital is Wu-lu-mu-ch'i.[...]Sinkiang is now linked to the Chinese rail network, but west and south of Wu-lu-mu-ch'i transportation is still concentrated along two ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern edge of the Dzungaria and connects Wu-lu-mu-ch'i with the Soviet Turkistan-Siberia RR, and the south road, which encircles the Tarim basin.
1992, “Political and Social”, in Donald McFarlan, editor, The Guinness Book of Records 1992, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204:Most remote from sea The large town most remote from the sea is Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (formerly Ürümqi) in Xinjiang, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, at a distance of about 1,500 miles from the nearest coastline. Its population was estimated to be 1,060,000 in late 1987.
1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:At the signing of the Treaty of Tarbagatai, the Chinese told the Russians that Muslims had taken Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (Urumchi) and were preparing to move on Tarbagatai and Ili (Kuldja).
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