Ulan County

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.

Ulan County ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ  (Mongolian) དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་། (Standard Tibetan) 乌兰县 (Chinese)
County
Chaka Salt Lake, Ulan County
Location of Ulan County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Haixi
Seat	Xireg
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Ulan County
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	烏蘭縣
Simplified Chinese	乌兰县
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wūlán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དབུས་ལམ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie dbus lam rdzong Tibetan Pinyin ü lam dzong
Mongolian name
Mongolian script	ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Ulaγan siyan

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.