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The 1931 China floods are considered to be the worst Chinese natural disaster of all time, with estimates of fatalities ranging widely but going up to as high as four million people. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] 15% of wheat and rice crops were destroyed in the Yangtze Valley, leading to famines. [ 41 ]
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The annual mass balance of Urumqi Glacier No. 1, according to WGMS. Glacier No.1 has longer observation history and fuller records than any other glacier in China. [3] In June 1958, Daxigou Weather Station was established right below Glacier No.1 at the mountainside of Tiangeer Peak, to measure and analyse the weather conditions in the area. [8]
Ürümqi [a] is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. [5] With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, as well as the largest in Central Asia in terms of population.
Ürümqi County(Uyghur: ئۈرۈمچى ناھىيىسى) is a county of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang. It contains an area of 4,601 km² and according to the 2002 census has a population of 80,000.
Aerial view of Midong District, Urumqi. Midong District was formed in 2007 by merging the former "Dongshan District" (Chinese: 东山区; pinyin: Dōngshān Qū; Uyghur: دۇڭسەن رايونى, romanized: Dungsen Rayoni, Dungsən Rayoni, Дуңсән Раүони) of Ürümqi (244 km 2 or 94 sq mi, population of 100,000, as per the 2002 Census) with the "Miquan City" (Chinese: 米泉市 ...
Tianshan District (Chinese: 天山区; pinyin: Tiānshān Qū; Uyghur: تەڭرىتاغ رايونى, romanized: Tengritagh Rayoni, Təngritaƣ Rayoni, Tengritag Rayoni, Тәңритағ Райони) is one of 7 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China.
Inner Mongolia is a provincial-level subdivision of North China, but its great stretch means that parts of it belong to Northeast China and Northwest China as well. It borders eight provincial-level divisions in all three of the aforementioned regions ( Heilongjiang , Jilin , Liaoning , Hebei , Shanxi , Shaanxi , Ningxia , and Gansu ), tying ...