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.
The new urban area, together with the national Urumqi High-tech Industrial Development Zone, implements & quot; District political Integration & quot; system, which belongs to Urumqi City of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region and is located in the northwest of Urumqi City. It is 14 km long from east to west and 9 km wide from north to south. The total area of the new urban area is 143sq km, with a total population of 379220 (2000). The new urban area has jurisdiction over 1 town, 4 townships and 13 streets, inhabited by 38 ethnic groups such as Han, Uygur and Hui. In the area under its jurisdiction, there are more than 500 units of the central government, autonomous regions, troops stationed in Ukraine, the Armed Police Force, the production and Construction Corps, and more than 20 scientific research institutes such as the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences. There are 33 colleges and universities, such as Xinjiang Medical University and Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics. The new urban area is the pass.