Xinhe County ( zh, s=新和县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Toksu County ( ug, توقسۇ ناھىيىسى;, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency zh, c=托克苏县), is a county in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Name

The county's original name Toksu was changed into Xinhe in 1941. "Xinhe" is the abbreviation of " Xinjiang Heping" (), literally "Xinjiang Peace."

History

On October 27, 1930, Toksu County was created from part of

Kuqa Kucha, or Kuche (also: ''Kuçar'', ''Kuchar''; ug, كۇچار, Кучар; zh, t=wikt:龜茲, 龜茲, p=Qiūcí, zh, t=wikt:庫車, 庫車, p=Kùchē; sa, कूचीन, translit=Kūcīna), was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the ...

. In 1941 or 1944, Toksu County's Chinese character name was changed from 'Tuokesu' County () to 'Xinhe' County ().

Administrative divisions

Towns ( / ): * Toksu Town (Xinhe, Toqsu; / ), Icheriq (Yiqi'airike; / , formerly ), Yultuzbaġ (Youludusibage, Yultuzbagh; / , formerly ), Tasheriq (Tashi'airike; , formerly / ), Townships ( / ): * Payxambabazar, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Paixianbaibazha, Peyshenbebazar; / ), Ogen (Weigan; / ), Üchqat (Yuqikate; / ), Tamtoghraq (Tamutuogelake; / ) Other areas: * 央塔库都片区管委会乡, 新和县轻工业园区生活区, 新和县物流园区生活区, 新和县新材料园区生活区

Climate

Economy

The economy is based on agriculture and also animal husbandry. The county produces wheat, corn, rice, cotton and melons as well as Parthian fennel and thin-shelled walnuts. Industries include wool-spinning, knitting, and carpet making.

Demographics

As of 2015, 184,399 of the 195,920 residents of the county were Uyghur, 10,901 were Han Chinese and 620 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 95.01% of the population of the county were Uyghur and 4.81% of the population was Han Chinese.

Transportation

Xinhe is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway.

Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Toksu/Xinhe: File:A-k`o-su NK-44 (1950) - panoramio.jpg, Map including Hsin-ho (Torpak Bazar) and surrounding region from the

International Map of the World The International Map of the World or IMW (also called the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by th ...

( AMS, 1950) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 f-6c.jpg, Map including Xinhe ( DMA, 1981) File:Operational Navigation Chart F-6, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Hsin-ho (Toksu) ( DMA, 1985)

Notes

References

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