Yining County
The Yining (Gulja) County (Chinese: 伊宁县; pinyin: Yīníng Xiàn) 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 Jiliyuzi (吉里于孜, Jílǐyúzī).
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 (around 4580 km²) and population (400,000) 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 Dadamutu (达达木图, Dádámùtú) and Panjin (潘津, Pānjīn), with 100.45 km² of land, from the County to the City in 2004.
Read more about Yining County: History
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