Urumchi

/ uːˈruːmtʃɪ /

noun

1. 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) Former nameTihwa

Example Sentences

Rishat Abbas, the brother of Uighur physician Gulshan Abbas, who was abducted from her home in Urumchi in September 2018, told Tuesday’s event that “millions of Uighurs are becoming collateral damage to international trade policies, enabling China to continue to threaten our freedoms around the world, enable it to continue its police state.”

From Reuters

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

The city of Urumchi has expanded from the mud-walled single-story Moslem quarters, where forage is stored on the roofs, to rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The scholarly O. Edmund Clubb, for example, had served with distinction in numerous China posts from Hankow to Urumchi; in Peking in 1937 he had rushed between armed groups of Americans and Chinese to straighten out what was about to become a bloody misunderstanding.

From Time Magazine Archive