Terak Township () is a

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Wuqia County Ulugqat County (also known as Ulughchat County and Wuqia County; ) is a county in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. It is under the administration of the Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture of Kizilsu. The county has two towns, nine townships a ...

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 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 ...

, China. Located in the middle northeast of the county, the township covers an area of 1,500 square kilometers with a population of 3,788 (as of 2017). It has 2 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at ''Ketkara Village'' (). Terak is located 156 kilometers away northeast of the county seat

Wuqia Town Wuqia Town () is a town and the county seat of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the middle east of the county, the town covers an area of 288 square kilometers with a population of 13,898 (as of 2017). It has 5 ...

. It is bordered by Artux City to the southeast, Baykurut Township to the west, Toyun Township in the northwest. It is bordered by the Kyrghyz Republic with a boundary line of 88 kilometers in the north. There are 22 mountain passes and 5 rivers connecting with Kyrgyzstan.

History

"The name "Terak" is from Kyrgyz language, it means " poplar". Terak was the 4th township of the 4th district in Wuqia County in 1950 and part of ''Toyun Commune'' () in 1958, it was formed from Toyun Commune in 1962, it was renamed to ''Xiangyang'' () from Terak in 1968 and restored the original name in 1980, and organized as a township in 1984.

Brief Introduction

The township of Terak has an area of about 1,500 square kilometers with 1,030 households and a population of 3,788 (as of 2017). Its highest altitude in the territory is 4,024 meters and the lowest altitude is 2,346 meters. The township has highways to the cities of

Artux Artux, Artush ( ug, ئاتۇش شەھىرى; ky, ارتىش, Артыш, Artysh), and officially rendered as Atuş ( zh, s=阿图什市, p=Ātúshí Shì),The official spelling according to is a county-level city and the capital of the Kyrgyz au ...

and

Kashi Kashi or Kaashi may refer to: Places * Varanasi (historically known as "Kashi"), a holy city in India **Kingdom of Kashi, an ancient kingdom in the same place, one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas **Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi * Kashgar, a cit ...

. The economy of Terak is mainly based on animal husbandry, the agronomic crops are

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, highland barley and medicago,

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is its mineral product. The township has a cultivated land of 175.3 hectares, artificial herbage Land of 273.5 hectares and the forest land of 60 hectares.

Settlements

The township has 2 administration villages and 5 unincorporated villages under its jurisdiction. 2 administration villages: * Ketkara Village () * Karateke Village ()

References

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