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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.

Qitai County is located in the northeast of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the southeast edge of Junggar Basin, 195 kilometers west of Urumqi City, is the border county of Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, and has a first-class national port-Wulatai Port, which is open to Mongolia. Qitai County, with a total area of 19300 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 7 towns and 8 townships, with Qitai central regiment farm and Beitashan pasture. The total population of the county is 240500 (2013), with ethnic minorities accounting for 25% of the total population. There is the only Tatar township in China. Qitai County has more than 20 kinds of mineral resources, such as coal, granite, iron, gold, silver, copper, mirabilite, graphite, limestone, bentonite, perlite and so on. In 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Qitai County was 8.524 billion yuan, an increase of 1% over the same period in 2011.
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