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.
Turpan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, located in the middle of the autonomous region, is an olive-shaped intermountain basin in the east of Tianshan, surrounded by mountains on all sides, belonging to a typical continental warm temperate desert climate; it has jurisdiction over one district and two counties with a total area of 69713 square kilometers and a total population of 637300 in 2017. Located in the hinterland of Eurasia, Turpan is the gateway to Urumqi and an important transportation hub for the new Silk Road and Eurasian Continental Bridge. Lanxin Railway and Nanjiang Railway meet here and form a three-dimensional transportation system of "highway, railway and aviation" with Turpan airport and G30 line. It has the location and convenient transportation advantages of "connecting north and south, east to west, west to east", and realizes the regional economic integration of Wutu.