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.
Urumqi, referred to as Urumqi, formerly known as Dihua, is the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, the political, economic, cultural, scientific, educational and transportation center of Xinjiang, and the largest city farthest from the sea in the world. Approved by the State Council, it is an important central city in northwest China and an international trade center facing Central Asia and West Asia. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over seven districts and one county, with a total area of 14216.3 square kilometers, a built-up area of 436 square kilometers, a resident population of 3.5058 million, an urban population of 2.6157 million, and a urbanization rate of 74.61 percent. Urumqi is located in northwest China, central Xinjiang, the center of the Eurasian continent, the northern foot of the middle part of the Tianshan Mountains, the southern margin of the Junggar Basin, adjacent to the countries of Central Asia, known as the "capital of the heart of Asia", is the second Eurasian University.