Kulansarak (Kulansa rak; also as Kulansarike; ) is a township of Akqi County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the northeast of the county, it covers an area of 1,594 kilometres with a population of 4,498 ( 2010 Census), the main ethnic group is

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. The township has 5 administrative villages (as of 2018) and 9 unincorporated villages under jurisdiction, its seat is at ''Jildiz Village'' ().

Name

The name of ''Kulansa rak'' is from the

Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz (; autonym: , tr. ''Kyrgyz tili'', ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in X ...

, meaning ''yellow grass beach with wild horses'' (). It is said that the township was so named because there were wild horses that lived here. The township is located in the northeast of the county, 33 kilometers northeast of the county seat

Akqi Town Akqi Town (also as ''Aheqi Town''; ) is a town and the county seat of Akqi County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the middle of the county, it covers an area of 1,454 kilometres with a population of 8,251 (as of 2018), of t ...

History

It was formerly part of the 1st district in 1950, ''Hulangshan Commune'' () was established in 1958. Kulansarak Commune was created in 1962. It was renamed to ''Xiangyang Commune'' () in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1978, the commune was renamed Kulansarak Commune. It was organized as a township in 1984.

Administrative divisions

Kulansarak includes 5 villages: * Aqtektir Village (Aketeketi'ercun), United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (, , ) ** * Ainiqkekir Village (Ayinikekake'ercun) (, , ) * Bedel Village (Biedielicun) (, , ) * Jildiz Village (Jiledesicun), United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (, , ) ** * Ozonkuch Village (, , )

Economy

The main industries in the township are planting and animal husbandry, wheat, corn, broad beans, hemp and rape are the main products. It is one of the main grain and edible oil producing areas in the county. There are roads link to the provincial road S306 ().

Demographics

, 99.29% of the population of Kulansarak was

Transportation

* Road to the Bedel Pass on the

China–Kyrgyzstan border The China–Kyrgyzstan border is in length and runs from the tripoint with Kazakhstan following a roughly south-west line across various mountain ridges and peaks of the Tian Shan range down to the tripoint with Tajikistan. The border divides ...

passes through the township

References

{{Administrative divisions of Akqi County Township-level divisions of Akqi County