Ürümqi

• Urumchi, Ürümchi, Urumqi
• Urumtsi (dated)
• Orumtsi

Borrowed from Uyghur ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi) via its official SASM/GNC/SRC romanization. See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /ʊˈrʊmt͡ʃi/, /uːˈɹuːmt͡ʃi/

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Ürümqi

1. A prefecture-level city, the capital of Xinjiang, China.
   • 1988, Manfred Domrös, Peng Gongbing, “Circulation”, in The Climate of China‎, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

     As also proved from statistical figures, different wind conditions are established over some marginal parts of China. Harbin/15, which records 50% of all directions from SE, S and SW, underlines atypical wind conditions which exist over northeastern China. The same is true for Lhasa/239 which experiences 44% of all directions from NE, E and SE, and Ürümqi/269 which records 38% of all winds with a southern component. These three stations demonstrate rare wind conditions which do not coincide with the typical northern winds in winter.

   • 2010 March 4, Richard MacManus, “China's Twitter Clones”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 April 2023, Technology:

     Fanfou, Jiwai and Digu were some of the first Twitter clones to become successful in China. However all three - plus Twitter itself - were blocked by the Chinese government in July 2009, due to their usage during the uprisings in Ürümqi.

   • 2020 January 29, Adam Schreck, Elaine Kurtenbach, David Koenig, “More airlines drop flights to China as virus spreads”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 15 April 2021‎:

     Before the Wednesday’s suspension, there were 24 flights a week from Kazakhstan to China, including a daily flight to Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang.

2. A county of Ürümqi city, Xinjiang, China.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Wulumuqi, Wulumuchi, Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
• (historical) Dihua, Ti-hua, Tihua, Tihwa

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Urumqi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3290, column 1
• Ürümqi, Urumqi, Ürümchi, Urumchi, Urumtsi at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Ürümqi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)

Ürümqi

1. Latin (UYY) transcription of ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi)