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Urumqi
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
Urumchi is the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country. The total population is 2.1 million inhabitants. It is located in a green oasis between the lofty ice-capped Bogda Peak, the vast Salt Lake in the east, the rolling pine-covered Southern hill and the alternating fields and sand dunes of Zunggar Basin in the northwest, Urumchi has an average elevation of 800 meters. The largest city in the western half of China, Urumqi has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the remotest city from any sea in the world at a distance of about 1,400 miles 2500 kilometers from the nearest coastline. The city has an area of 10,989 square kilometers with population of 2,081,834 and density is 174.53 per square kilometers inhabitants.
Urumchiis a prefecture level city which is surrounded by various countries. The city supports modernization and values business. Various industries have evolved in this city. Along with all this, the city has an outstanding natural beauty.
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