Ulan County

Ulan County
ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ · དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། · 乌兰县
Wulan
Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County
Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Ulan
Location of the county seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°49′N 98°17′E / 36.817°N 98.283°E / 36.817; 98.283
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
County seatXireg
Area
  Total
12,858.16 km2 (4,964.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
31,507
  Density2.5/km2 (6.3/sq mi)
 
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.wulanxian.gov.cn
Ulan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese乌兰县
Traditional Chinese烏蘭縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWūlán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedbus lam rdzong
Tibetan Pinyinü lam dzong
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCUlaγan siyan

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. County seat is Xireg.

The name of the county comes from a Mongolian word which means "red".