Xinyuan County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Künas County (; ), is a county in 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

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture ( kk, Іле Қазақ автономиялық облысы) (also as Yili) is an autonomous prefecture for Kazakh people in Northern Xinjiang, China, one of five autonomous prefectures in Xinjiang. Yining Cit ...

. It contains an area of 7,581 km². According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 290,000. The county is served by

Xinyuan Nalati Airport Xinyuan Nalati Airport is an airport that mainly serves tourists to the Nalati scenic area in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The airport is located 58 kilometers from Nalati and 12 kilometers from Xinyuan County (Künes County) in I ...

Name

The county's original name Künes was changed into Xinyuan in 1946 after the county established its seat on the

Künes River The Künes River ( ug, دەرياسى كۈنەس, Künes deryasi, Künəs dəryasi; zh, c=鞏乃斯河, p=Gǒngnǎisī hé) is a tributary of the river Ili in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, that originates in the eastern Tianshan. Geograph ...

upstream. "Xinyuan" means "New

Headstream The headwaters of a river or stream is the farthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or downstream confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river. It is also known as a river's source. Definition The ...

" in Chinese.

Administrative divisions

There are 9

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an o ...

s in Xinyuan (Kunas) County, which are as follows: Note: *1. On October 21, 2014, with the approval of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, it was renamed the original Almali Township to Almali Town. *2. On July 13, 2016, with the approval of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, it was renamed the original Kansu Township to

Kansu Town Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...

.ش ئۇ ئا ر خەلق ھۆكۈمىتىنىڭ تەستىقنامىسى(كەڭسۇ بازىرى)
/ref> *3. On March 30, 2012, with the approval of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the original Karabora Township was renamed Karabora Town. There are 2 townships in Kunas County, which are as follows:

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Xinjiang Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture {{Xinjiang-geo-stub