Ulan County
| Ulan County ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ (Mongolian) དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། (Standard Tibetan) 乌兰县 (Chinese) | |
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 Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County | |
.png) Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 乌兰县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 烏蘭縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||
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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.
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.
Coordinates: 36°49′N 98°17′E / 36.817°N 98.283°E
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