Awat County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency () is a county in

Aksu Prefecture Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. T ...

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. Awat County is located on the southern foot of the

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mountain range and on the northern edge of the

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History

The term "Awat" translates from Uyghur to signify "prosperity". The region surrounding Awat County was formerly known as "Dolang," the ancestral home of the "Dolang people," an old Uyghur tribe. Subsequently, a significant influx of peasants settled in the region, resulting in a population surge, an expansion of cultivated land, and a daily transformation of the landscape, prompting the renaming to Awat. During the

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, it was part of . During the

Tang Dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

, it was part of Gumo Prefecture. In 1883, was established, with Awat falling under its control. In 1913, the area was part of the three, four, and five districts of Aksu County; in 1922, Awat County was established. Awat County was established in 1930, initially part of Aksu Dao, and subsequently became part of the Aksu District Administrator's Office in 1933. In 1943, it pertains to the Aksu Administrative Inspector General's Office. The People's Government of the County of Awat was officially created in 1950. Subsequently, it has been governed by the Aksu Commissioner's Office and the Aksu Regional Administrative Office. On January 23, 2013, the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Xin Zheng Xin 013No. 17) sanctioned the transfer of 474.208 square kilometers of Awat County to Aral City's administration.

Administrative divisions

Awat County is made up of seven towns, two townships and one other area:

Demographics

As of 1999, 81.59% of the population of Awat (Awati) County was Uyghur and 17.74% of the population was Han Chinese. According to the 2010 Sixth Population Census, the total resident population of Awati County was 237,562. As of 2015, 217,722 of the 262,842 residents of the county were Uyghur, 42,960 were

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, 2,160 were from other ethnic groups.

Climate

Economy

A developed irrigation system is in place and agricultural products include wheat, rice, corn and cotton. Sheep are the primary livestock in the county. Industries include coal, construction, food processing, leathermaking and carpetmaking. One quarter of the cotton production in Aksu prefecture comes from the county.

Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Awat: File:STANFORD(1917) p61 PLATE19. SINKIANG (14597194848).jpg, Map including Awat (1917) File:A-k`o-su NK-44 (1950) - panoramio.jpg, Map including Awat (labeled as A-wa-t'i (Abad)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World ( AMS, 1950) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 f-6c.jpg, Map including Awat ( DMA, 1981) File:Operational Navigation Chart F-6, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Awat (labeled as A-wa-t'i (Awat)) ( DMA, 1985)

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References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang Aksu Prefecture