Ulan County

Ulan or Wulan (Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ; Tibetan: དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། ; Chinese: 乌兰县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. County seat is Xireg.

Ulan County

ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ  (Mongolian)
དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། (Standard Tibetan)
乌兰县 (Chinese)
County
Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County
Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
SeatXireg
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Ulan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese乌兰县
Traditional Chinese烏蘭縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanདབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་།
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ

The name of the county comes from a Mongolian word which means "red".

Transportation

The county is served by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which has a station at the county seat. There is also a freight-only branch to the salt works on the Chaka Salt Lake (茶卡盐湖) near Chaka Town (茶卡镇), in the southeastern part of the county.


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