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.
Golmud, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Qinghai Province, is administered by Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is located in the central and western part of Qinghai Province and the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The topography of the area is complex and can be divided into two parts: the basin plateau and the northern foot of Tanggula Mountains. It is a typical plateau continental climate; the total area is 118954.18 square kilometers, with 5 streets, 2 towns and 2 townships; in 2017, there are 27 ethnic minorities with a resident population of 240494. "Golmud" is transliterated in Mongolian and translated as Gaolumsi, Guoliang and Garmu, meaning "a place with dense rivers". Golmud is a strategic fortress connecting Tibet, Xinjiang and Gansu and a transportation hub in western China. Qinghai-Tibet, Qingxin and Dunge highways meet here; the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been opened to traffic; there are the headwaters of the Yangtze River and ten thousand