Wuhai

Wuhai 乌海市 • ᠦᠬᠠᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Prefecture-level city
Cityscape of Wuhai
Location of Wuhai City jurisdiction in Inner Mongolia
Wuhai Location of the city centre in Inner Mongolia
Coordinates (Wuhai municipal government): 39°39′18″N 106°47′38″E / 39.655°N 106.794°E / 39.655; 106.794
Country	People's Republic of China
Region	Inner Mongolia
Area [1]
• Prefecture-level city	1,754 km2 (677 sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)[2]	67.17 km2 (25.93 sq mi)
Elevation	1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Population  (2017)[2]
• Prefecture-level city	631,000
• Density	360/km2 (930/sq mi)
• Urban	550,000
• Urban density	8,200/km2 (21,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-NM-03
GDP(2009)	31.121B RMB
Website	www.wuhai.gov.cn

Wuhai (Chinese: 乌海市; Mongolian: Üqai qota, Mongolian cyrillic.Үхай хот) is a prefecture-level city and regional center in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, and is by area the smallest prefecture-level division of the region. It is located on the Yellow River between the Gobi and Ordos deserts. Wuhai became a single city occupying both banks of the Yellow River with the amalgamation in 1976 of Wuda on the left (west) bank (then administrated by Bayan Nuur League) together with Haibowan on the right (east) bank (then administrated by Ikh Juu league). Wuhai is one of very few cities with an antipode which is not only on land (as opposed to open ocean), but which is another inhabited city; the antipode of Wuhai is almost exactly on the city of Valdivia, Chile. Football commentator and Television host Huang Jianxiang is born here.