Yiwu County
Yiwu County (Chinese: 伊吾县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Aratürük County (Uyghur: ئارا تۈرۈك ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 阿热吐鲁克县), is a county in the northeast of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hami City. It contains an area of 19,511 km2 (7,533 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 20,000.
Yiwu County
Aratürük | |
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Location of Yiwu County (red) within Hami City (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Yiwu Location of the seat in Xinjiang Yiwu Yiwu (China) | |
| Coordinates: 43°15′18″N 94°41′50″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture-level city | Hami |
| County seat | Aratürük Town (Yiwu) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 19,450 km2 (7,510 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 38,464 |
| • Density | 2.0/km2 (5.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 伊吾县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 伊吾縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 阿热吐鲁克县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿熱吐魯克縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur | ئارا تۈرۈك ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | اراتۇرىك اۋدانى Аратұрық ауданы Aratūryq audany | ||||||||||
Yiwu was the site of the final battle in mainland China of the Chinese Civil War. There is a monument in Yiwu to a horse who greatly aided the People's Liberation Army during the battle.
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