Burqin County is a county in

Xinjiang 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 ...

, China and is under the administration of the Kazakh autonomous area of

Altay Prefecture Altay Prefecture is located in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 561,667 (2000). It is a part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. At the 2000 census, Altay was the only major subdivision of Ili ...

. It has an area of with a population of 70,000. The postcode is 836600.

Administrative divisions

* Town (镇 / بازارلىق / قالاشىع) ** Burqin Town (布尔津镇 / بۇرچىن بازىرى / بۋىرشىن قالاشىعى) ** Oymak Town (窝依莫克镇 / ئويماق بازىرى) ** Chonghur Town (冲乎尔镇 / چوڭقۇر بازىرى) ** Kostik Town (阔斯特克镇 / قوستىق بازىرى) * Township (乡 / يېزا / اۋىل) ** Burqin Township (布尔津乡) ** Dulaiti Township (杜来提乡 / دۇۋلايتى يېزىسى) ** Egiztobe Township (也格孜托别乡 / ئېگىزتۆپە يېزىسى) * Ethnic Township (民族乡) **

Kom-Kanas Mongolian Ethnic Township Kom-Kanas Mongolian Ethnic Township, generally known as Kom-Kanas, is a township of Burqin County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name derives from the two villages where most of the inhabitants live, ...

(Hemuhanasi Mongol Township; 禾木哈纳斯蒙古族乡 / قومقاناس موڭعۇل ۇلتتىق اۋىلى / قۇمقاناس موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم يېزىسى)

Demographics

Geography

Burqin County is located in the northernmost part of Xinjiang. Its county seat, which is called Burqin Town () is situated at the confluence of the

Irtysh The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'e ...

and its right tributary, the Burqin River. Most of the county is within the Burqin River basin, which reaches into the Altai Mountains on Xinjiang's border with Mongolia and Russia. The major mountain

massif In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term also refers to a ...

on Burqin county's border with these two countries is Tavan Bogd. The Kanas Lake is located in the northern part of the county, on the border with the

Habahe County Habahe County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kaba County ( ug, قابا ناھىيىسى; ), is a county situated in the far north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration o ...

. The Burqin Shankou Dam is a

hydroelectric dam Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

located on the Burqin River at . It has a 94m high concrete arch dam; the dam's hydroelectric plant generates 220 Megawatt of power. The construction work started in July 2009, with an expected completion date of June 2013; construction was completed in 2014 and the dam started generating power in November 2015. Farther upstream on the Burqin, the Burqin Chonghu'er Dam operates in the town of Chunkur (), at .Burqin River Chonghuer Hydropower Project in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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