Kümüx, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Kumishi; , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency / ) is a

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Turpan Prefecture Turpan () or Turfan ( zh, s=吐鲁番) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and a population of 693,988 (2020). The historical center of the prefectural area has shifted ...

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, China. __TOC__

Name

'Kümüx' () means '

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' in

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. Silver is mined in the area. Kümüx has also been written in

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as ''Kumushi'' ( / and / ).

History

In 1984, Kümüx Town was established. In December 2010, Zeng Lingquan (), who ran an adoption agency for the physically and mentally disabled with no operation license in Sichuan, was arrested. Zeng reportedly sent the mentally ill to work in a factory run by Li Xinglin () where they were enslaved and worked year round (instead of seasonally as with other local factories) in unsafe conditions at the Jia'ersi Green Construction Material Chemical Factory () in Kümüx.

Geography

The nearby Kuruktag, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Kuluketage; 库鲁克塔格) mountains (at around ) are a source of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron and other metals as well as asbestos, marble, ''mengfeitu'' (), limestone, table salt,

mirabilite Mirabilite, also known as Glauber's salt, is a hydrous sodium sulfate mineral with the chemical formula Na2SO4·10H2O. It is a vitreous, colorless to white monoclinic mineral that forms as an evaporite from sodium sulfate-bearing brines. It is ...

, gypsum and quartz.

Administrative divisions

Kümüx includes one

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and two

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: Residential community: *Kümüx (Kumishi; ) Villages: * Qirghiz tam (Ke'erkezitiemi; / ) *Yëngi bostan (Yingbositan; / ) , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Economy

Kümüx is an important stop on the road from

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. There are restaurants, a transport and shipping station, a regional weather station, hotel, post office, gas station, etc. There is little

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in the surrounding area and spring water is used in irrigation.

Demographics

, more than 600 persons lived in Kümüx, mostly

. , 88.1% of the population of Kümüx were Uyghur. During the

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, Kümüx was described as having twenty or more households.

Transportation

* China National Highway 314 * S24 Shanku Expressway

Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Kümüx: File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nk-45-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Kümüx (labeled as Kʻu-mi-shih) and surrounding region from the

International Map of the World The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1000000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German g ...

( DMA, 1975) File:Operational Navigation Chart F-7, 4th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Kumüx ( DMA, 1982) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566_f-7d.jpg, Map including Kümüx ( DMA, 1990)

References

Turpan Township-level divisions of Xinjiang {{Xinjiang-geo-stub