Manas County is a county in 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 ...
under the administration of the
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, s=昌吉回族自治州; ug, سانجى خۇيزۇ ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى) is an autonomous prefecture for Hui people in the middle north of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. Th ...
. It covers an area of and census it had a population of 170,000.
The county seat is the old town of Manas (), located on the
Manasi River just east of
Shihezi
Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has a population of 380,130 according to the 2010 census. The city is also home to Shihezi University, the second-largest comprehensive university under ...
.
Manass has been called: "the biggest city (after Urumchi) in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T’ung-kan (Т′уң-кан,
Dungan) population."
[Lattimore, Owen (1930) ''High Tartary'' Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 43.]
Climate
See also
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1906 Manasi earthquake
References
Transport
Manas is served by
China National Highway 312, the
Northern Xinjiang and the
Second Ürümqi-Jinghe Railways.
Notable persons
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Shewket Imin (
:ug:شاۋكەت ئىمىن)
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
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