Maralbexi County
| Bachu County 巴楚县 • مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى | |
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| County | |
.png) Location of the county (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Bachu Location of the seat in Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 39°46′43″N 78°34′30″E / 39.77861°N 78.57500°ECoordinates: 39°46′43″N 78°34′30″E / 39.77861°N 78.57500°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Kashgar Prefecture |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Maralbexi County | |||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 巴楚县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴楚縣 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴尔楚克县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴爾楚克縣 | ||||||||||
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| Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛热勒巴什县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪熱勒巴什縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur |
مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Bachu County (Chinese: 巴楚县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Maralbexi County (Uyghur: مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 玛热勒巴什县 or Chinese: 巴尔楚克县) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
Geography
| Climate data for Maralbexi County (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 0.9 (33.6) |
6.4 (43.5) |
14.6 (58.3) |
23.8 (74.8) |
28.6 (83.5) |
32.1 (89.8) |
33.8 (92.8) |
32.3 (90.1) |
27.9 (82.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
11.0 (51.8) |
2.4 (36.3) |
19.6 (67.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −12.2 (10) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
1.4 (34.5) |
9.0 (48.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
17.4 (63.3) |
19.5 (67.1) |
18.5 (65.3) |
13.1 (55.6) |
4.8 (40.6) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
5.4 (41.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.4 (0.016) |
1.3 (0.051) |
2.5 (0.098) |
2.9 (0.114) |
7.8 (0.307) |
13.8 (0.543) |
13.2 (0.52) |
11.7 (0.461) |
4.3 (0.169) |
2.1 (0.083) |
0.3 (0.012) |
0.7 (0.028) |
61.0 (2.402) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 24.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 61 | 50 | 41 | 33 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 47 | 49 | 51 | 56 | 65 | 48 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 180.6 | 177.8 | 194.5 | 229.3 | 267.5 | 301.7 | 308.1 | 285.4 | 265.4 | 258.1 | 212.8 | 177.8 | 2,859 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 59 | 53 | 58 | 61 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 71 | 61 | 64 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
Transportation
Bachu is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway.
External links
- Introduction to Maralbishi County, official website of Kashgar Prefecture government.
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