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Wuhai

Inner Mongolia, China · Asia

About Wuhai

Wuhai sits on the route: 25 minutes from Bayinsai.

Wuhai is in Inner Mongolia, China, with about 220,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bayinsai, about 22 km away.

Wuhai (Chinese: 乌海市; Mongolian: Üqai qota, Mongolian Cyrillic: Үхай хот) is a prefecture-level city and regional center in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, and is by area the smallest prefecture-level division of the region. It is located on the Yellow River between the Gobi and Ordos deserts. Wuhai became

Read more a single city occupying both banks of the Yellow River with the amalgamation in 1976 of Wuda on the left (west) bank (then administrated by Bayan Nuur League) together with Haibowan on the right (east) bank (then administrated by Ikh Juu league). Wuhai is one of very few cities with an antipode which is not only on land (as opposed to open ocean), but which is another inhabited city; the antipode of Wuhai is almost exactly on the city of Valdivia, Chile. Football commentator and Television host Huang Jianxiang was born here.

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Quick Information

Population
218,427
Continent
Asia
Country
China
Region
Inner Mongolia
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
39.6844, 106.8158

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in China

Police
110
Ambulance
120
Fire
119
Driving side
right

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