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Administrative facts come from the municipal government: its "About the city" page for the seven districts, the county and the area, the municipal statistics bureau's 2019 survey of Midong district for that district's formation, and the Ürümqi County government's overview for Dihua County. The physical description (relief, elevation range, extent, the Bogda watershed on the eastern boundary, the pairing of two districts with development zones) is taken from the revised soil and water conservation plan for 2018–2030, a consultation draft of July 2025 posted on the municipal government's website.
The 2020 census total and the city's share of the regional population are in Table 1 of the regional main-data release of 14 June 2021. On the statistics bureau's own site the table is an image; its figures were read from the text of the same release as reprinted by China News Service.
The 1946 burning and the 1993, 1998 and 2005–2007 figures come from Zhou (2015) and Hu, Zhang and Hao (2015), read in their republication on 杜新忠戒毒网 (jhak.com), as on the Xinjiang page. The 2024 judgment of the Ürümqi Intermediate People's Court is cited from the Chinese Wikisource transcription, which was imported from China Judgements Online; the original there needs a login.
The clearances of May 2026 and the seed seizures of 2026 rest on single news reports each. The seizures are dated by the date of the report: neither report prints the day of the seizure.
Where the sources disagree
- Area. The municipal government's "About the city" page gives about 13,800 km² (1.38万平方公里). A Xinhua profile of 2019 gives 14,216 km². The 2018–2030 soil and water conservation plan gives a land area of 13,782.49 km² from the Third National Land Survey, and the State Council's 2017 reply on the city master plan gives an urban planning area of 13,783.1 km². The infobox uses the municipal government's figure.
- Formation of Midong district. The municipal statistics bureau's 2019 survey dates the merger to June 2007, with State Council approval. Elsewhere in the same survey the district's population is compared with that of "2006, when Midong district was founded". The article gives June 2007.
- The walls of Dihua. The 2015 People's Daily Overseas Edition account dates the building of the walls of the present city to 1758–1763, after which the Qianlong Emperor named it Dihua. Some English-language reference works date the walled city to 1763–1767. The article follows the cited account.
- Date of the change of name. Two news sites date the restoration of the name Ürümqi to 1 February 1954, crediting a page of the municipal government's old website that no longer loads. The cited sources give 1954 (and February 1954 for Ürümqi County), so the article gives the year.
Not used, and why
- Herbarium sheets placed at Ürümqi by aggregators. Five sheets in the Chinese Virtual Herbarium (WUK 0001289, T. N. Liou 3403, 18 August 1931; PE 00557984 and CDBI 0016239, Ching Ren-chang 337, July 1956; PE 00558000, no collector, June 1962; PE 00557985, Lin Yourun 74002, 1 July 1974) carry an Ürümqi county or city in their GBIF records. The labels as shown by the herbarium name only the region, 新疆维吾尔自治区. The place rests on the data provider's georeference and not on the label, so the sheets are not counted as accessions from the municipality. T. N. Liou (Liu Shen'e) collected in Xinjiang in 1931 with the Sino-French north-western expedition and entered the Tian Shan in August and November of that year; no source read places him at Dihua on 18 August.
- A 2004 survey of people in rehabilitation in Ürümqi and Yining, cited by Hu, Zhang and Hao, gives rates of cannabis use by nationality. It combines the two cities and was not read at first hand. Its figures are not used.
- Population estimates between censuses. The municipal statistics bureau's annual communiqués give 4.07 million residents for the end of 2021 and 4.1539 million for the end of 2025, with urbanisation rates of 96.1 and 97.4 per cent. They rest on sample surveys and are not census figures, so the infobox gives the 2020 census only. No urban share or ethnic composition for the city from the 2020 census was found; a table of the 2019 regional yearbook gives a breakdown by nationality on a different basis and is not used.
- A claim of 2,500 years of cannabis cultivation at Ürümqi appears in one copy of the 2026 Midong clearance report and in no source read; it is not used.
- Self-media reports (Toutiao and Douyin posts on police cases in 2024 and 2026) are not used.
Open content questions
- Whether any herbarium sheet was in fact gathered within the present municipality is not settled by the labels read; the five sheets above give only the region.
- The infobox calls the city a prefecture-level city. The regional government counts Ürümqi among the 14 prefecture-level units of Xinjiang; the municipal pages read call it the regional capital and a city without using the term.