Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Ürümqi.
Even though it was the capital of the Uyghur region, more than 80 percent of the population of Ürümchi was already ethnic Chinese by the time I arrived.
2022, Nury Turkel, chapter 1, in No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Escape/gJA9EAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT351 more example
One year was spent in the region between September 1995 and September 1996 conducting field work among Uyghurs in the regional capital of Ürümchi in the north, and in the southern oases of Kucha, Aqsu, Qäxqär and Xotän.
2000, Joanne Smith, “Four Generations of Uyghurs: The Shift towards Ethno-political Ideologies among Xinjiang's Youth”, in Inner Asia, volume 2, page 196
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Ürümchi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmchi
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