Wusu
Wusu
Usu | |
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Downtown Wusu | |
Location of Wusu County (red) within Tacheng Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Wusu Location in Xinjiang Wusu Wusu (Xinjiang) Wusu Wusu (China) | |
| Coordinates: 44°25′08″N 84°42′50″E / 44.419°N 84.714°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Tacheng |
| Municipal seat | Xinshiqu Subdistrict |
| Area | |
• Total | 14,394.12 km2 (5,557.60 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 262,906 |
| • Density | 18.2648/km2 (47.3057/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乌苏市 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 烏蘇市 | ||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Ус хот | ||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠤᠰᠤ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | شىخۇ شەھىرى | ||||||
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| Kazakh name | |||||||
| Kazakh | شيحۋ قالاسى Şihu qalasy Шиху қаласы | ||||||
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.