Jeminay County

Jeminay County
吉木乃县
جېمىنەي ناھىيىسى
County

Location of Jeminay County (red) within Altay Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Country People's Republic of China
Autonomous region Xinjiang
Prefecture Altay Prefecture
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website www.jmn.gov.cn
Jeminay County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 吉木乃县
Traditional Chinese 吉木乃縣
Uyghur name
Uyghur
جېمىنەي ناھىيىسى
Kazakh name
Kazakh

جەمەنەي اۋدانى‎

Kazakh Cyrillic: Жеменей ауданы

Kazakh Latin alphabet: Jemenei' ay'dany

Jeminay County is a county situated in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Altay Prefecture.

A road border crossing into Kazakhstan is located in Jeminay town. The Kazakh settlement across the border is Maykapchigay near Zaysan in East Kazakhstan Region.

Population

Amongst the county's total population of 37,733, 19,090 of them were men while 18,643 were women. 13,209 people were Han Chinese while 24,524 belonged to the county's fifteen different ethnic minority groups. The Non-agricultural population has a total figure of 18,530 while the Farming population is 19,203; The Urban population accounts for 10,121 people. According to the 2005 census, the native ethnic Kazaks, accounted for more than sixty percent of the county's total population figure.

Coordinates: 47°26′35″N 85°52′26″E / 47.443°N 85.874°E / 47.443; 85.874


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