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 · དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། · 乌兰县
Wulan
Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County
Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Ulan
Location of the county seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°49′N 98°17′E
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
County seatXireg
Area
  Total12,858.16 km2 (4,964.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total31,507
  Density2.5/km2 (6.3/sq mi)
 
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.wulanxian.gov.cn
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".

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