Tekes County is a county within 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

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China. Its capital is Yining, also known as Ghulja or Kulja. Covering an area of 268,591 square kilometres (16.18 per cent of Xinjiang), Ili Prefecture shares ...

. It contains an area of 8,067 km². According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 150,000. The county center is known for being a

planned community A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...

with a shape of a

ba gua The ''bagua'' ( zh, c=八卦, p=bāguà, l=eight trigrams) is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. ''Bagua'' is a group of trigrams—co ...

Administrative divisions

Tekes County is divided into 5

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, 1

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, and 2 ethnic townships. * Others: ** Tekes County Horse Herding Pasture () ** Koksu Tree Farm () ** 78th Regiment of the XPCC () (78-تۇەن مەيدانى) (78-تۋان الاڭىنداعى)

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References

County-level divisions of Xinjiang Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture National Famous Historical and Cultural City Long stubs with short prose {{Xinjiang-geo-stub