Manas County

Manas County
玛纳斯县 (Chinese)
ماناس ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)
Manass
Location of Manas County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (grey)
Location of Manas County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (grey)
Manas is located in Xinjiang
Manas
Manas
Location in Xinjiang
Manas is located in China
Manas
Manas
Manas (China)
Coordinates: 44°18′N 86°13′E / 44.300°N 86.217°E / 44.300; 86.217
CountryChina
Autonomous regionXinjiang
PrefectureChangji
County seatManas Town
Area
 • Total9,171 km2 (3,541 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total192,098
 • Density21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard[a])
Websitewww.mns.gov.cn
Manas County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese玛纳斯县
Traditional Chinese瑪納斯縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMǎnàsī Xiàn
Wade–GilesMa-na-szŭ Hsien
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjingمَانَاسِ ثِیًا‎
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese绥来县
Traditional Chinese綏來縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSuīlái Xiàn
Uyghur name
Uyghurماناس ناھىيىسى
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiManas nahiyisi
Yengi YeziⱪManas nah̡iyisi
SASM/GNCManas Nahiyisi
Siril YëziqiМанас наһийиси

Manas County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 9,174 square kilometres (3,542 sq mi) and as of the 2002 census it had a population of 170,000.

The county seat is the old town of Manas, located on the Manas River just east of Shihezi.

Manass has been called: "the biggest city (after Urumchi) in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T’ung-kan (Т′уң-кан, Dungan) population."[2]

  1. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  2. ^ Lattimore, Owen (1930) High Tartary Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 43.


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