Yuli County as the official Romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Lopnur County (

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), is a county in 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 ...

and is under the administration of the

Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the southeastern Xinjiang, China. It borders Gansu to the east, Qinghai to the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. It is the largest prefecture-level di ...

. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 100,000.

Etymology

The etymology was discussed in detail in the article
On the Place Name Yuli and Rouran
' () by Li Shuhui (). The name ''Yuli'' was postulated to have come from Turkic ("one who is stationed; one who stays"), the name of a Turkic clan, and derived from (verb form , "to be stationed in") + ''-gir'' (adjectival suffix). Both and were said to be recorded in the ancient dictionary ''

Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk The ' (; translated to English as the ''Compendium of the languages of the Turks'') is the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, compiled between 1072–74 by the Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari, who extensively documented t ...

'', although the exact Arabic-script forms are unknown, perhaps Üregir, Yüregir, the 15th clan of the Oghuz.

History

In 2016, Tuanjie was upgraded from a

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to a

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. In 2018, Xingping was upgraded from a township to a town.

Geography

The county is bordered to the northeast by

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Climate

Administrative divisions

Yuli County includes three

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and five

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: Others: * XPCC 31st Regiment Farm (兵团三十一团, ) * XPCC 33rd Regiment Farm (兵团三十三团, ) * XPCC 34th Regiment Farm (兵团三十四团, )

Economy

, there was about 2,960 acres (19,564 '' mu'') of cultivated land in Yuli.

Demographics

As of 2015, 68,281 (66.20%) of the 103,143 residents of the county were

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, 33,752 (32.72%) 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 ...

and 1,110 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 70.54% of the population of Yuli (Lopnur) County was Han Chinese and 28.68% of the population was Uyghur. As of 1997, several townships had a majority of Uyghur residents including Ka'erquga Township (98.6%), Donghetan Township (98.5%), Akesufu/Akesupu Township (90.1%), Gulebage Township (65.3%), Xingping Township (61.6%) and others.

Transportation

* China National Highway 218

Gallery

File:Operational Navigation Chart F-7, 4th edition.jpg, Map including Yuli and surrounding region (

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, 1982) File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nk-45-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Yuli (labeled as WEI-LI) and surrounding region from the

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(1975) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-8607404-mongolia-west.jpg, Map including eastern Yuli County area (1935) File:尉犁 2014-05 liuzusai - panoramio (7).jpg, File:阿克苏浦水库 - panoramio.jpg, File:中国新疆尉犁县 China Xinjiang Yuli County 大脚印探险救援！ - panoramio.jpg, File:尉犁 2014-05 liuzusai - panoramio (3).jpg,

Notes

References

{{Authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang Populated places along the Silk Road Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture