Toyun Township () is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
of
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 ...
in
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 northeast of the county, the township covers an area of l,546 square kilometers with a population of 2,651 (as of 2017). It has 3
administrative villages under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at ''Kaklik'' ().
Toyun is located 103 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
Ulugqat
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 ...
and
Kiziloy
Kiziloy Township (قىزىلئۆي يېزىسى / Heiziwei, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ) is the former county seat before 1989 and a township of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the mi ...
townships to the southwest,
Baykurut and
Terak townships to the southeast. It is bordered by the
Kyrghyz Republic with a boundary line of 115 kilometers to the northeast and west. There are 27
mountain passes connecting with
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
. The ''Turugart Port'' () to
Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, is in the township and it is a national first-class port.
History
"The name "Toyun" is from
Kyrgyz language, it means "a place to eat full stomach" () or "a rich land" ().
The land is wide and the water and grass are abundant there, it was named after that.
Toyun was part of the 4th district in Wuqia County in 1950 and ''Toyun Commune'' () was formed in 1958, it was renamed to ''Zhongdong'' () and restored the original name in 1980, and organized as a township in 1984.
Geography
The seat of Tuoyun Township is at 2,780 meters above
sea level
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. The average elevation of the township is above 3,300 meters. The highest altitude is 5,031 meters. The altitude of each pasture is 3,000-4,500 meters. More than 98% are
Gobi
The Gobi Desert ( Chinese: 戈壁 (沙漠), Mongolian: Говь (ᠭᠣᠪᠢ)) () is a large desert or brushland region in East Asia, and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
Geography
The Gobi measures from southwest to northeast ...
desert and
saline-
alkali land, and the climate is extremely bad. The winter is cold and long, the annual heating time is more than 7 months, the lowest temperature in winter is as low as minus 30 degree Celsius, the summer is cool and short, the highest temperature is about 25 degree Celsius, it is windy, the mountain flood disaster occurs frequently, the annual average temperature Less than 6 degree Celsius.
Settlements
The township has 3
administration villages
and 5
unincorporated villages under its jurisdiction.
3 administration villages:
* Toyun Village ()
* Suyak Village ()
* Kuwate Village ()
settlements:
* Kaklik ()
* Tamqi ()
References
{{Administrative divisions of Wuqia County
Township-level divisions of Wuqia County