伊宁市

伊寧市

Yīníngshì

popculture

Meanings

1 Yining (Gulja) City
2 capital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang

Characters

(phonetic; also short for 伊犁 Ili)

Examples

伊宁市是新疆伊犁州的首府。

Yīníng shì shì Xīnjiāng Yīlí zhōu de shǒufǔ.

Yining City is the capital of Ili Prefecture in Xinjiang.

伊宁市靠近哈萨克斯坦边境。

Yīníng shì kàojìn Hāsàkèsītǎn biānjìng.

Yining City lies near the Kazakhstan border.

Tips

history

Known in Uyghur, Kazakh, and Russian as Gulja (Кульджа). It was the capital of the Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949) and remains a major Han-Uyghur-Kazakh trading city near the Khorgos border crossing.

Stroke Order

伊 yī

宁 níng

市 shì