Xinyuan County
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| Simplified Chinese | 新源县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新源縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 巩乃斯县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鞏乃斯縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur |
كۈنەس ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Xinyuan County (Chinese: 新源县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Künas County (Uyghur: كۈنەس ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 巩乃斯县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 7,581 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 290,000.
Name
The county's original name Künes was changed into Xinyuan in 1946 after the county established its seat on the river upstream. "Xinyuan" means "New Headstream" in Chinese.[1]
See also
Coordinates: 43°27′04″N 83°08′52″E / 43.45111°N 83.14778°E
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