Maralbexi County
Maralbexi County (Maralbeshi, Maralbishi, transliterated from Uyghur: مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 玛热勒巴什县), Bachu County (Chinese: 巴楚县), and Chinese: 巴尔楚克县) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
Maralbexi County
Bachu; Maralbashi; Maralbeshi; Pachu | |
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Location of the county (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Maralbexi Location of the seat in Xinjiang Maralbexi Maralbexi (Xinjiang) Maralbexi Maralbexi (China) | |
| Coordinates: 39°46′43″N 78°34′30″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Kashgar |
| County seat | Maralbeshi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 18,490.59 km2 (7,139.26 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 366,141 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 843800 |
| Website | bachu |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴楚縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴楚县 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 巴爾楚克縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴尔楚克县 | ||||||||||
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| Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪熱勒巴什縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛热勒巴什县 | ||||||||||
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