Gongliu County () as the official romanized name, also
transliterated from Uyghur as Tokkuztara County (; ), is a county situated within 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 . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 160,000.
Name
The place was originally named Tokkuztara, meaning "nine streams" because branches of the
Ili River
The Ili ( ug, ئىلى دەرياسى, Ili deryasi, Ili dəryasi, 6=Или Дәряси; kk, Ile, ; russian: Или; zh, c=伊犁河, p=Yīlí Hé, dng, Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; mn, Ил, literally "Bareness") is a river si ...
merged in the area. When a county was set up in 1932, ''Gongliu'' was chosen as the official name, which is an abbreviation of ''Gonggu Changliu'' (""), literally ''Stability and Long-lasting''.
Administrative divisions
There is one township and seven villages. There are six
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 Tokkuztara County, which are as follows:
Note:
*1. On October 21, 2014, with the approval of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, the original Dongmahalla Township was renamed
Dongmahalla Town.
*2. In 2013, with the approval of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, the original Agarsin Township was renamed
Agarsin Town.
*3. On July 13, 2016, with the approval of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the original Tikirik Township was renamed
Tikirik Town.
*4. On January 24, 2013, with the approval of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, it was renamed the original "Muhur Township"
Koldeneng Town.
There are 2 townships in Tokkuztara County, which are as follows:
Climate
References
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
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