"Urumqi" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Urumqi
  1. Alternative form of Ürümqi Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Ürümqi
    Sense id: en-Urumqi-en-name-SG--Fz7Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries
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          "ref": "1989, Xinjiang: the Land and the People, Beijing: New World Press, pages 20–21:",
          "text": "Urumqi, the seat of government of Xinjiang, stands at about the same latitude as Marseilles, which has an average temperature of six or seven degrees centigrade in January when the grass and leaves of trees remain green and water flows freely. January in Urumqi, however, has an average temperature of fifteen degrees below zero centigrade, and the ground is covered with ice and snow.",
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          "ref": "2014 July 15, Ben Blanchard, “Chinese city bans, destroys matches to fight terror”, in Michael Urquhart, editor, Reuters, Emerging Markets:",
          "text": "Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Cha Naiyu, “Witness to discrimination: Confessions of a Han Chinese from Xinjiang”, in Amnesty International:",
          "text": "When I returned to Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, during the Spring Festival one year, police cars were lined up outside the train station. I discovered that ethnic minority people from outside Urumqi needed a letter of guarantee from their local relatives or employer just to leave the train station.",
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          "ref": "2022 January 4, Brenda Goh, “Tesla showroom in China's Xinjiang region blasted by rights groups”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-01-04:",
          "text": "Tesla, the world's most valuable automaker, announced on Dec. 31 that it was opening a showroom in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi. \"On the last day of 2021 we meet in Xinjiang,\" Tesla said in a post on its official Weibo account.\nOther U.S. and European automakers or their Chinese partners have showrooms in Urumqi, a city of some 3 million people. German automaker Volkswagen AG has a car factory near Urumqi.",
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          "ref": "1989, Xinjiang: the Land and the People, Beijing: New World Press, pages 20–21:",
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