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Urumqi / WulumuqiUrumqi is the capital of and largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The following description is excerpted from a writeup by Jonathan of
Xinjiang - Satellite Map
Hualing MarketJonathan (0)
Just north of Hongshan is Hualing Market, reputedly Asia’s largest indoor household goods mart. The main buildings contain thousands of shops, with everything from cheap plastic buckets, to 5 tonne s...
Urumqi / Wulumuqi - Shopping
Geology MuseumJonathan (0)
Not far from the Museum, on Youhao Lu is the well-organised Geology museum. Though the exhibits have no English descriptions you still get a good idea of how resource rich Xinjiang is. Perhaps the mo...
Urumqi / Wulumuqi - Attractions Museums
Regional MuseumJonathan (0)
If you only have time to see one thing in Urumqi, then a trip to the Regional Museum is the place to go. Centrepiece is an extremely well preserved collection of mummified human remains discovered in...
Urumqi / Wulumuqi - Attractions Museums