Wichita (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː/ WITCH-ih-taw) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname "Cowtown". Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for around one year before going to Dodge City.
Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, referred to as "Bozhou", belongs to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. "Bortala" is Mongolian, meaning "silver grassland". It is located on the northwest edge of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region and in the hinterland of Eurasia. the mountains on the west, north and south are continental arid climate in the north temperate zone. With a total area of 27000 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 county-level cities and 2 counties. The total population in 2018 is 478509. Bordering Kazakhstan, Bozhou has a border of 372 kilometers. It is an important connecting point at home and abroad and a key point for import and export of goods in the "middle channel" of the Silk Road Economic Belt. The second Eurasian Continental Bridge runs through the whole territory. The China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline and the second line of the west-east natural gas pipeline pass through the border. It is the confluence of two major traffic arteries and two ports, National Highway 312 and Provincial Highway 219 and Jingyihuo.