Maralbexi County (Maralbeshi, Maralbishi, transliterated from ; zh, c=玛热勒巴什县), Bachu County ( zh, c=巴楚县), and zh, c=巴尔楚克县) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously 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 of the country at the crossroads ...

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. The county is under the administration of the

Kashgar Prefecture Kashgar, also known as Kashi, is a prefecture located in southwestern Xinjiang, China, located in the Tarim Basin region (roughly the southern half of Xinjiang). It has an area of and 4,496,377 inhabitants at the 2020 census with a population d ...

. It has an area of , and surrounds, but does not administer, the

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Tumxuk TumxukThe official spelling according to , (Beijing, ''SinoMaps Press'' 1997); is a county-level city in the western part of Xinjiang, China. The eastern part of Tumxuk is surrounded by Maralbexi County, Kashgar Prefecture. The smaller western ...

. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.

History

In 1913, Maralbexi County was established. In September 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Maralbexi, dividing

Ma Hushan Ma Hushan (Xiao'erjing: , zh, t=馬虎山, s=马虎山, first=t, p=Mǎ Hǔshān; 1910 – 1954) was a Chinese Muslim warlord and the brother-in-law and follower of Ma Zhongying, a Dungan/Hui Ma Clique warlord. He ruled over an area of Souther ...

's 36th Corps into two sections. In February 2002, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake killed 267 people in Maralbexi County and Payzawat County. On February 24, 2003, the 2003 Bachu earthquake occurred. In April 2013, twenty-one died in an incident in Seriqbuya. In October 2014, twenty-two died in an incident at a farmer's market in the county.

Administrative divisions

Maralbexi County includes 4

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( / 镇), 8

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( / 乡):

Transportation

Bachu is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway and G3012 Turpan–Hotan Expressway.

Economy

Agricultural products include corn, cotton, wheat and others as well as sword-leaf dogbane. The central and eastern parts of the county have old desert poplar forests. Animal herding is prominent and

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and phosphate fertilizer are produced in the county. Industries include food processing, plastics, rug making, electricity and construction. , there was about 30,600 acres (202,728 '' mu'') of cultivated land in Maralbexi.

Demographics

As of 2015, 363,488 of the 382,186 residents of the county were

Uyghur Uyghur may refer to: * Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia (West China) ** Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs *** Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur K ...

, 17,816 were

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and 882 were from other ethnic groups. , the population of Maralbexi County was 95.13%

. As of 1999, 83.12% of the population of Maralbexi (Bachu) County was Uyghur and 16.41% of the population was Han Chinese.

Geography

Climate

Notable persons

* He Jing (TV presenter)

Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Maralbexi: File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nj-44-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Maralbexi (labeled as PA-CH'U (MARAL BASHI)) ( USATC, 1971) File:NJ-44-1 Maral Bashi, China.jpg, Map including Maralbexi (labeled as PA-CH'U (MARAL BASHI)) ( ATC, 1971) File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Maralbexi (labeled as BACHU (PA-CH'U)) ( DMA, 1980) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7a.jpg, Map including Maralbexi (labeled as BACHU (PA-CH'U)) ( DMA, 1984)

Notes

References

External links

Introduction to Maralbishi County
official website of

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