Xinhe County ( zh, s=新和县) as the official romanized name, also formerly known as its Uyghur name Toksu County (;
[, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency] zh, c=托克苏县), is a county in
Aksu Prefecture
Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. T ...
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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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China
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Name
The county's original name Toksu was changed into Xinhe in 1941. "Xinhe" is the abbreviation of "
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
Heping" (), literally "Xinjiang Peace."
History
On October 27, 1930, Toksu County was created from part of
Kuqa.
In 1941
or 1944,
Toksu County's
Chinese character
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name was changed from 'Tuokesu' County () to 'Xinhe' County ().
Administrative divisions
Xinhe County administered 4
towns
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
, 4
townships and 4 other areas:
Climate
Economy
The economy is based on agriculture and also animal husbandry. The county produces wheat, corn, rice, cotton and melons as well as Parthian
fennel
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and thin-shelled walnuts. Industries include wool-spinning, knitting, and carpet making.
Demographics
As of 2015, 184,399 of the 195,920 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 ...
, 10,901 were
Han Chinese
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and 620 were from other ethnic groups.
As of 1999, 95.01% of the population of the county were Uyghur and 4.81% of the population was Han Chinese.
Transportation
Xinhe is served by the
Southern Xinjiang Railway.
Historical maps
Historical English-language maps including Toksu/Xinhe:
File:A-k`o-su NK-44 (1950) - panoramio.jpg, Map including Hsin-ho (Torpak Bazar) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World ( AMS, 1950)
File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 f-6c.jpg, Map including Xinhe ( DMA, 1981)
File:Operational Navigation Chart F-6, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Hsin-ho (Toksu) ( DMA, 1985)
Notes
References
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Aksu Prefecture
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