Yining County


Yining County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Gulja County, is a county within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The county seat is in the town of Jélilyüzi.
Yining County does not include the adjacent city of Yining, which is a county-level administrative unit in its own right.
The county land area is 4486 km², with the population of 360,000 people as of 2004.
A larger area and population was reported for the county 2000; this decrease and the corresponding increase of area and population for the City of Yining resulted from the transfer of the villages of Dadamtu and Penjim, with of land, from the County to the City in 2004.

Administrative divisions

ئىزاھات:
غۇلجا ناھىيىسى قارمىقىدا 12 دانە يېزا بار بولۇپ، ئۇلار تۆۋەندىكىچە:
NUyghur NameUyghur latin alphabet NameEnglish nameChinese nameNumber of communitiesPopulation Land area
1تۇرپانيۈزى يېزىسىTurpanyüzi YézisiTurpanyuzi Township吐鲁番于孜乡413.568.3
2قاراياغاچ يېزىسىQarayaghach YézisiQarayaghach Township喀拉亚尕奇乡611.7468.64
3موللاتوختايۈزى يېزىسىMollatoxtayüzi YézisiMollatoxtayuzi Township莫洛托乎提于孜乡48.125.5
4سادىقيۈزى يېزىسىSadiqyüzi YézisiSadiqyuzi Township萨地克于孜乡25.213.09
5ئۈچئون خۇيزۇ يېزىسىÜchon Xuyzu YézisiUchon Hui Township愉群翁回族乡1546.7155.2
6چۇلۇقاي يېزىسىChuluqay YézisiChuluqay Township曲鲁海乡610.493.36
7ئەۋلىيا يېزىسىEwliya YézisiEwliya Township阿乌利亚乡515.4498.83
8ئونيار يېزىسىOnyar YézisiOnyar Township温亚尔乡713143.79
9مازار يېزىسىMazar YézisiMazar Township麻扎乡613.7197.17
10ئۇيغۇر ئۈچئون يېزىسىUyghur Üchon YézisiUyghur Uchon Township维吾尔玉其温乡713.2731
11سامىيۈزى يېزىسىSamyüzi YézisiSamyuzi Township萨木于孜乡815.7126.5
12قاش يېزىسىQash YézisiQash Township喀什乡824.3365.32

History

The county was created in 1888 and was originally known as Ningyuan County. It received its present name in 1914.
In 1952, the city of Yining was separated from Yining County into a separate county-level administrative unit.