Yuli County


Yuli County as the official Romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Lopnur County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 100,000.

Etymology

The etymology was discussed in detail in the article by Li Shuhui.
The name Yuli was postulated to have come from Turkic , the name of a Turkic clan, and derived from + -gir.
Both and were said to be recorded in the ancient dictionary Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, although the exact Arabic-script forms are unknown, perhaps اُرَكِرْ Üregir, يُرَكِرْ Yüregir, the 15th clan of the Oghuz.

History

In 2016, Tuanjie was upgraded from a township to a town.
In 2018, Xingping was upgraded from a township to a town.

Geography

The county is bordered to the northeast by Toksun County.

Climate

Administrative divisions

Yuli County includes three towns and five townships:
Others:
, there was about 2,960 acres of cultivated land in Yuli.

Demographics

As of 2015, 68,281 of the 103,143 residents of the county were Han Chinese, 33,752 were Uyghur and 1,110 were from other ethnic groups.
As of 1999, 70.54% of the population of Yuli County was Han Chinese and 28.68% of the population was Uyghur.
As of 1997, several townships had a majority of Uyghur residents including Ka'erquga Township, Donghetan Township, Akesufu/Akesupu Township, Gulebage Township, Xingping Township and others.

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