Ruoqiang County
Ruoqiang County (Chinese: 若羌县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qakilik County (Uyghur: چاقىلىق ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 卡克里克县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 198,318 square kilometres (76,571 sq mi) (about twice the size of Zhejiang province and similar to Kyrgyzstan or Senegal), making it the largest county-level division in the country.
Ruoqiang County
Qakilik, Charkhlik, Chochiang | |
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Ruoqiang County (red) within Bayingolin Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Ruoqiang Location of the seat in Xinjiang Ruoqiang Ruoqiang (Bayingolin) Ruoqiang Ruoqiang (China) | |
| Coordinates (County government): 39°01′23″N 88°10′01″E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Bayingolin |
| County seat | Ruoqiang Town (Qakilik) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 199,222 km2 (76,920 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 896 m (2,940 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 43,045 |
| • Density | 0.22/km2 (0.56/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Han Chinese, Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 841800 |
| Area code | 0966 |
| Website | loulan |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 若羌县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 婼羌縣 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 卡克里克县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 卡克里克縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | چاقىلىق ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | named after the town of Charklik | ||||||||||
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The county seat is in Ruoqiang Town. This is the location which less-detailed maps will label as "Ruoqiang". It lies at an altitude of 848 metres (2,782 ft).
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