Ulan County
Ulan County
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Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Qinghai |
Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
Seat | Xireg |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Ulan County | |||
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Chinese name | |||
Traditional Chinese | 烏蘭縣 | ||
Simplified Chinese | 乌兰县 | ||
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Tibetan name | |||
Tibetan | དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། | ||
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Mongolian name | |||
Mongolian script | ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||
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Ulan or Wulan (Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ; Tibetan: དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 乌兰县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. County seat is Xireg.
The name of the county comes from a Mongolian word which means "red".
Transportation[]
The county is served by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which has a station at the county seat. There is also a freight-only branch to the salt works on the Chaka Salt Lake (茶卡盐湖) near Chaka Town (茶卡镇), in the southeastern part of the county.
Coordinates: 36°49′N 98°17′E / 36.817°N 98.283°E
Categories:
- Ulan County
- County-level divisions of Qinghai
- Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Northwestern China geography stubs