Tacheng Prefecture is located in Northern

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

, People's Republic of China. It has an

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of and a population of 935,600 (2017). It is a part of

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture ( kk, Іле Қазақ автономиялық облысы) (also as Yili) is an autonomous prefecture for Kazakh people in Northern Xinjiang, China, one of five autonomous prefectures in Xinjiang. Yining City ...

. The prefecture level city of

Karamay Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city. Karamay ...

forms a separate

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in the middle of Tacheng.

Subdivisions

Tacheng prefecture is divided into 3 county level cities, 3

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, and 1

autonomous county Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are fo ...

Geography

See

Emin Valley The Emin Valley () is located on the China–Kazakhstan border, in Central Asia. It has an area of about . Its main waterway is the Emil River. Administratively, the Emin Valley occupies areas of Tacheng Prefecture in the Xinjiang Region of no ...

Tarbagatai Mountains The Tarbagatai Mountains ( mn, , , translit. ''Tarvagatai nuruu'', literally: "range with marmots"; ; kk, Тарбағатай жотасы, ''Tarbağatai jotasy'') are a range of mountains located in the north-western parts of Xinjiang, China, ...

, Saur Mountains,

Gurbantünggüt Desert The Gurbantünggüt Desert ( kk, Құрбантұңғыт шөлі; ug, قۇربانتۈڭغۈت قۇملۇقى, Qurbantüngghüt Qumluqi; zh, s=古尔班通古特沙漠 , t=古爾班通古特沙漠, p=Gǔ'ěrbāntōnggǔtè Shāmò) occupies a l ...

Heads

Secretary

# Li Fengzi -1991.05 # Li Guimao 1991.06-1994.07 # Wu Qilin 1994.07-2000.04 # Tang Dingbang 2000.04-2004.11 # Peng Jiarui 2004.11-2011.07 # Zhang Bo 2011.07-2015.01 # Xue Bin since 2017.03 ()

Governors

# Baspaı Sholaquly Баспай Шолақұлы 1945–1952 # Арыстанбек (阿尔斯坦别克) 1983.-1993.06 # Alpısbaý Raxımulı 1993.06-1997.01 #

Qızaýjan Seýilqojaulı Qızaýjan Seýilqojaulı ( kk, Қызайжан Сейілқожаұлы; born February 1950) is a Chinese politician of Kazakh origin who served as vice chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ...

1996.12-2003.01 # Tilepaldı Äbdiraşïd 2003.01-2008.01 :zh:铁力瓦尔迪·阿不都热西提 #

Mänen Zeýnelulı Mänen Zeýnelulı ( kk, Мәнен Зейнелұлы, born November 1958) is a Chinese politician of Kazakh ethnicity who served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region between 20 ...

2008.01-2012.04 # Aqanulı Sarqıt :zh:沙尔合提·阿汗 2012.04-2016.06 # Muqııat Jarmuqamet ()2016.06-present

References

Prefecture-level divisions of Xinjiang {{Xinjiang-geo-stub