Bohu County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Bagrax County ( ug, باغراش ناھىيىسى; ), is a county in the central part of the

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

and is under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000.

Etymology

The area was first populated by

Khoshut The Khoshut ( Mongolian: Хошууд,, qoşūd, ; literally "bannermen," from Middle Mongolian ''qosighu'' "flag, banner") are one of the four major tribes of the Oirat people. Originally, Khoshuuds were one of the Khorchin tribes in southeast ...

Mongolians who settled by

Bosten Lake Bosten Lake (, Uyghur: / / ''Baghrash Köli / Baƣrax Kɵli'', Chagatai: ''Bostang'') is a freshwater lake on the northeastern rim of the Tarim Basin, about east of Yanqi and northeast of Korla, Xinjiang, China in the Bayin'gholin Mongol A ...

(). A county was not officially set up until 1971 and was named Bohu (), an abbreviation of "Bosten Lake".

Subdivisions

Bohu County is made up of 2 towns and 5

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

. Other: * XPCC 25th Regiment Farm (兵团二十五团, 25-تۇەن مەيدانى)

Demographics

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References

County-level divisions of Xinjiang Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture {{Xinjiang-geo-stub