Xayar County

Xayar County
شايار ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)
沙雅县 (Chinese)
Shayar, Shaya
County
Huyanglin Nature Reserve
Huyanglin Nature Reserve
Location of Shayar County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Location of Shayar County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Xayar County is located in Xinjiang
Xayar County
Xayar County
Location of the seat
Xayar County is located in China
Xayar County
Xayar County
Xayar County (China)
Coordinates: 41°13′48″N 82°48′21″E / 41.23000°N 82.80583°E / 41.23000; 82.80583
CountryChina
Autonomous regionXinjiang
PrefectureAksu
Established date1902[1][2][3]
County seatXayar Town (Shayar, Shaya)[3]
Area
[2][3][4]
 • Total31,887.28 km2 (12,311.75 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[5]
 • Total278,516
 • Density8.7/km2 (23/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsUyghur[6]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard[a])
Postal code
842200
Websitewww.xjsy.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Xayar County
Uyghur name
Uyghurشايار ناھىيىسى‎
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiShayar Nahiyisi
Yengi YeziⱪXayar Nah̡iyisii
SASM/GNCXayar Nahiyisi
Siril YëziqiШайар Наһийиси
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese沙雅县
Traditional Chinese沙雅縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShāyǎ Xiàn
Wade–GilesSha¹-ya³ Hsien⁴

Xayar County,[7][8][9][10] also Shayar County[11][12][13][14] or, from Mandarin Chinese, Shaya,[15] is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aqsu Prefecture. It contains an area of 31,868 km2 (12,304 sq mi). According to the 2004 census it has a population of 210,000.

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  5. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  6. ^ ZX, ed. (26 September 2019). "Pic story: oil workers at Shunbei oil-gas field in China's Xinjiang". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on August 13, 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020. Oil workers have a morning meeting at Shunbei oil-gas field of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) in Xayar County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 25, 2019.
  7. ^ Ted Regencia (25 October 2019). "Communist loyalty no shield for Uighurs from Chinese detention". Aljazeera.com. Retrieved 25 April 2020. Uighurs work at a roadside in Xayar County east of the city of Aksu in Xinjiang last September
  8. ^ &Diacritics=DC Xayar (Approved - N) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  9. ^ Complete Atlas Of The World (3rd ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238 – via Internet Archive. Xayar
  10. ^ The official spelling is "Shayar" according to 中国地名录. Beijing: SinoMaps Press. 1997. p. 313. ISBN 7-5031-1718-4.
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  12. ^ Eva Xiao; Pak Yiu (11 October 2019). "China disturbs even the Uighur dead in 'development' of Xinjiang". The Japan Times. Retrieved 25 April 2020. Some of the graves were cleared with little care — in Shayar County, journalists saw unearthed human bones left discarded at three sites.
  13. ^ Shohret Hoshur; Roseanne Gerin (16 April 2015). "Police Conduct Raids in Xinjiang a Year After Flag Burning at Mosque". Radio Free Asia. Translated by Shohret Hoshur. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  14. ^ "China dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng 'in Xinjiang jail'". BBC. 2 January 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2020. Gao Zhiyi said he planned to visit his brother in the Shaya County jail in the western prefecture of Aksu later this month.


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