Tacheng Prefecture is located in Northern

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 northwes ...

, People's Republic of China. It has an

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of and a population of 935,600 (2017). It is a part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The prefecture level city of

Karamay Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city. Karamay ...

forms a separate

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in the middle of Tacheng.

Subdivisions

Tacheng prefecture is divided into 3 county level cities, 3

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, and 1

autonomous county Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are ...

Geography

See

Emin Valley The Emin Valley () is located on the China–Kazakhstan border, in Central Asia. It has an area of about . Its main waterway is the Emil River. Administratively, the Emin Valley occupies areas of Tacheng Prefecture in the Xinjiang Region of n ...

, Tarbagatai Mountains,

Saur Mountains The Saur Mountains (; kk, Сауыр жоталары, ''Sauyr jotalary''; russian: Саур) is one of the mountain ranges in the Tian Shan system. An eastern extension of the Tarbagatai Mountains, it starts on the China-Kazakhstan border and co ...

Gurbantünggüt Desert The Gurbantünggüt Desert ( kk, Құрбантұңғыт шөлі; ug, قۇربانتۈڭغۈت قۇملۇقى, Qurbantüngghüt Qumluqi; zh, s=古尔班通古特沙漠 , t=古爾班通古特沙漠, p=Gǔ'ěrbāntōnggǔtè Shāmò) occupies a l ...

Heads

Secretary

# Li Fengzi -1991.05 # Li Guimao 1991.06-1994.07 # Wu Qilin 1994.07-2000.04 # Tang Dingbang 2000.04-2004.11 # Peng Jiarui 2004.11-2011.07 # Zhang Bo 2011.07-2015.01 # Xue Bin since 2017.03 ()

Governors

# Baspaı Sholaquly Баспай Шолақұлы 1945–1952 # Арыстанбек (阿尔斯坦别克) 1983.-1993.06 # Alpısbaý Raxımulı 1993.06-1997.01 # Qızaýjan Seýilqojaulı 1996.12-2003.01 # Tilepaldı Äbdiraşïd 2003.01-2008.01 :zh:铁力瓦尔迪·阿不都热西提 # Mänen Zeýnelulı 2008.01-2012.04 # Aqanulı Sarqıt :zh:沙尔合提·阿汗 2012.04-2016.06 # Muqııat Jarmuqamet ()2016.06-present

References

Prefecture-level divisions of Xinjiang {{Xinjiang-geo-stub