Wusu
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Wusu, officially Usu, is a county-level city with more than 100,000 residents in Xinjiang, China. It is a part of Tacheng Prefecture of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Oil production is a major part of the economy while the county is an oasis in the Dzungarian Basin. Wusu lies between the major cities of Bole and Shihezi in Northern Xinjiang and west of Ürümqi, capital of Xinjiang and Kuitun, south of Karamay.
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Vinony's link graph records 244 inbound references to Wusu, and connects out to pinyin, prefecture and Northern Xinjiang railway.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm3rd_region, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics County-level divisions of Xinjiang, Long stubs with short prose and Oases of China.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Wusu
- Settlement.other_name
- Usu
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Xinjiang Northern#Xinjiang#China
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Xinjiang
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Wusu.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Downtown Wusu
- Settlement.image_map
- Location of Wusu within Xinjiang (China).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Wusu County (red) within Tacheng Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Xinjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tacheng
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- ᠤᠰᠤ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tacheng Prefecture
- Population
- 262906
- Area
- 14394.12
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.xjws.gov.cn
- Image
- Wusu.jpg
- Dialing code
- 992
- Licence plate code
- 新G
Show 4 more facts
- postal code
- 833000
- Commons category
- Wusu
- different from
- Mount Usu
- native label
- 乌苏
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Transport
- Administrative divisions
- Climate
- Notes
- References
Wusu, officially Usu, is a county-level city with more than 100,000 residents in Xinjiang, China. It is a part of Tacheng Prefecture of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Oil production is a major part of the economy while the county is an oasis in the Dzungarian Basin. Wusu lies between the major cities of Bole and Shihezi in Northern Xinjiang and west of Ürümqi, capital of Xinjiang and Kuitun, south of Karamay.
==Transport== Wusu is served by China National Highway 312, the Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi-Jinghe Railways.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wusu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations