Urumqi, of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China

[longknife]

A big city with a population of 3 million and I bet you’ve never heard of it. It isn’t even in Wikipedia’s list of 100 urban areas. That is, if you haven’t read pieces about Chinese efforts to “control” Muslims.

And here are some scenes of it”

More pictures and an interesting story @ Urumqi: World’s Remotest Large City (The Evolving Urban Form) | Newgeography.com

 

[Unkotare]

A big city with a population of 3 million and I bet you’ve never heard of it......

Because you hadn't?