Ulan or Wulan (
Mongolian: ; ; ) is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers 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.
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 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.
References
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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