Wenquan County

Wenquan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 温泉县
Traditional Chinese 溫泉縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 阿日相县
Traditional Chinese 阿日相縣
Literal meaning hot springs (from Mongolian)
Mongolian name
Mongolian script ᠷᠠᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Uyghur name
Uyghur
قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى

Wenquan County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Arixang County, is a county in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's Almaty Region to the north and west. It contains an area of 5,900 km2 (2,300 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 70,000.

Coordinates: 44°58′08″N 81°01′29″E / 44.9689°N 81.0248°E / 44.9689; 81.0248


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