Yining County
Yining County (Chinese: 伊宁县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Gulja County (Uyghur: غۇلجا ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 固勒扎县), is a county within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The county seat is in the town of Jëlilyüzi.
Yining County
Gulja County | |
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Yining County (red) within Ili Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Yining County Location in Xinjiang Yining County Yining County (Xinjiang) Yining County Yining County (China) | |
| Coordinates: 43°58′38″N 81°31′39″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ili |
| County seat | Jëlilyüzi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,097 km2 (1,582 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 365,307 |
| • Density | 89/km2 (230/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 伊宁县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 伊寧縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 固勒扎县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 固勒扎縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur | غۇلجا ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Yining County does not include the adjacent city of Yining, which is a county-level administrative unit in its own right.
The county land area is 4486 km², with the population of 360,000 people as of 2004.
A larger area (around 4580 km²) and population (400,000) was reported for the county 2000; this decrease and the corresponding increase of area and population for the City of Yining resulted from the transfer of the villages of Dadamtu (Uyghur: دادامتۇ, Дадамту; 达达木图; Dádámùtú) and Penjim (Uyghur: پەنجىم, Пәнҗим; 潘津; Pānjīn), with 100.45 km2 (38.78 sq mi) of land, from the County to the City in 2004.