Maralbexi County
Bachu; Maralbashi; Maralbeshi; Pachu | |
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.png) Location of the county (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Maralbexi Location of the seat in Xinjiang  Maralbexi Maralbexi (Xinjiang)  Maralbexi Maralbexi (China) | |
| Coordinates: 39°46′43″N 78°34′30″E / 39.77861°N 78.57500°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Kashgar |
| County seat | Maralbeshi |
| Area | |
• Total | 18,490.59 km2 (7,139.26 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 366,141 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur[3][4] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard[a]) |
| Postal code | 843800 |
| Website | bachu |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴楚縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴楚县 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 巴爾楚克縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴尔楚克县 | ||||||||||
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| Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪熱勒巴什縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛热勒巴什县 | ||||||||||
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Maralbexi County[5][6] (Maralbeshi,[7] Maralbishi,[8][9][10] transliterated from Uyghur: مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 玛热勒巴什县), Bachu County (Chinese: 巴楚县), and Chinese: 巴尔楚克县) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
xzqhmaralbexiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ 巴楚县概况. 巴楚县人民政府网 (in Simplified Chinese). 8 December 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
巴楚县辖8乡4镇1个良种繁育场，229个村（社区），总人口38.51万人，其中农村户籍人口29.91万人，有汉族、维吾尔族、回族、哈萨克族等31个民族，维吾尔族占95.13%。
- ^ 1997年巴楚县行政区划 [1997 Maralbexi County Administrative Divisions]. XZQH.org. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
喀什地区辖县。位于喀什地区东部。面积21741.8平方千米，人口33.1万，有维吾尔、汉、 回等民族，其中维吾尔族占83.03％，汉族占16.4％，辖4镇8乡。
- ^ Zhang Dongmiao, ed. (5 March 2017). "Xinjiang finishes first round of universal health checks". Xinhua News Agency. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
Thanks to the first universal health check in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Mtailipu Rosuli, 65, a Uygur man in Bachu (Maralbexi) County, had his first health examination of his life.
- ^ Ben Blanchard (30 April 2013). Stephen Coates (ed.). "China says detains 19, seizes weapons after Xinjiang unrest". Reuters. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
The government has labeled the violence in Kashgar's Maralbexi county as a "terrorist attack", though the exiled World Uyghur Congress has said the shooting and killing of a young Uighur by "Chinese armed personnel" prompted the Uighurs to retaliate.
- ^ Joshua Lipes (22 November 2019). "Xinjiang Authorities Undermine Muslim Abstention From Pork in Bid to Assimilate Uyghurs". Radio Free Asia. Translated by Elise Anderson. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
In October 2018, a photo was posted online by the government of Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture's Maralbeshi (Bachu) county, which portrayed a Uyghur village head eating a piece of pork and calling on other Uyghurs to join him. The photo was taken down shortly after publishing.
RFA recently spoke with a village head in Maralbeshi who confirmed that the photo was real, and that local authorities are teaching people to eat pork as well. - ^ "Kashgar Tourism". Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2020 – via Internet Archive.
Maralbishi County
- ^ Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (2010). 建筑抗震设计规范 [GB50011-2010: Code for Seismic Design of Buildings] (in English and Simplified Chinese). Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press. p. 203 – via Google Books.
Marabishi [sic] County
- ^ "Project Beauty Unveils China's Ugly Side". Newsweek Pakistan. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
But they also argue that some officials' aggressive approach sparked resentment and violence, including an April attack by Uighurs on police in Maralbishi outside Kashgar that left 21 people dead. Beijing blamed "terrorists" who "regularly watched video clips advocating religious extremism."
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