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.
Xinyuan County is located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the eastern end of Yili River Valley, and in the Gongnai River Valley. It starts from Aiken Daban in the east, is adjacent to Gongliu County and Hejing County in the south, and is bounded by Nilak County, Shawan County and Hejing County in the northeast. The total population is 316002 (2012). There are 34 ethnic groups, including Kazakh, Han, Uygur and Hui. The name of the county is located in the upper reaches of the Gongnai River, taking another "new source", which means newly reclaimed grassland or newly developed wilderness. The Kazakh language is called Gong Naisi, which means "Xiangyang" (according to textual research, it is Turkic, and later evolved from Mongolian and Kazakh). The geographical coordinates are 82 °28 east longitude, 84 °56 east longitude, 43 °03 north latitude, 43 °40 'north latitude, high east and low west, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and open to the west. It is about 196 km long from east to west and about 196 km wide in the middle.