Ulan or Wulan (
Mongolian: ; ; ) is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of
Qinghai Province
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest pop ...
, China. It is under the administration of
. County seat is
Xireg
Xireg is a town in and county seat of Ulan County in Qinghai province, China. The town is located in a fertile valley. Wulan railway station
Wulan (or Ulan) railway station () is a station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, in Ulan County, Qingha ...
.
The name of the county comes from a
Mongolian word which means "red".
Climate
Transportation
The county is served by the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which has a
station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
* Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
** Cattle statio ...
at the county seat. There is also a freight-only branch to the salt works on the
Chaka Salt Lake Chaka Salt Lake ( zh, s=茶卡盐湖, p=Chákǎ Yánhú; bo, ཚྭ་ཁ་མཚོ་) is a salt lake in Ulan County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai, China. The oval-shaped lake is located near the eastern end of Qaidam Basin, to the west of the pr ...
(
茶卡盐湖) near
Chaka Town
Chaka Town () is a rural town in Ulan County, Qinghai, China. it had a population of 2,100 and an area of . The Han, Hui, Mongolian and Tibetan live here.
History
After the establishment of the Communist State, it was renamed Chaka Commune in ...
(
茶卡镇), in the southeastern part of the county.
References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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