Yuli County as the official Romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Lopnur County (

Lop Nur Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a former salt lake, now largely dried up, located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts ...

), is a county in the

Xinjiang Uyghur 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 ...

and is under the administration of the

Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Bayingolin (; often abbreviated to Bayingol; also as Bayinguoleng) is an autonomous prefecture for Mongol people in the southeast of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. It borders Gansu to the east, Qinghai to the southeast and ...

. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 100,000.

Name

The etymology was discussed in detail in the article
On the Place Name Yuli and Rouran
' () by Li Shuhui (). The name ''Yuli'' was postulated to have come from Turkic (“one who is stationed; one who stays”), the name of a Turkic clan, and derived from (verb form , “to be stationed in”) + ''-gir'' (adjectival suffix). Both and were said to be recorded in the ancient dictionary ''

Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk The ' ( ar, ديوان لغات الترك, lit=Compendium of the languages of the Turks) is the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, compiled in 1072–74 by the Turkic scholar Mahmud Kashgari who extensively studied the Turkic ...

'', 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 A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

to a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

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

Geography

The county is bordered to the northeast by

Toksun County Toksun County is a county in Turpan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Name The term 'Toksun' means 'ninety'. History The Battle of Toksun took place in this county in July 1933 when Khoja Niyas Hajji, a Uighur leader, d ...

Climate

Administrative divisions

Yuli County includes three towns and five townships: Towns (镇) *

Yuli Town Yuli may refer to: People * Yuli Berkovich a scientist who did experiments with seed germination in zero gravity in the International Space Station * Yuli Burkin, a Russian writer (sci-fi) and musician *Yuli Daniel, a Soviet dissident writer, poet ...

(Lopnur) ( / لوپنۇر بازىرى) *

Xingping Town Xingping () is a city located in the center part of Shaanxi province, China. It has been a city since 1993, with a total area of 496 square kilometers and a population of 620,000. The annual average temperature is and its annual precipitation o ...

(, formerly / شىڭپىڭ بازىرى) * Tuanjie Town (, formerly / ئىتتىپاق بازىرى) Townships (乡) *

Tarim Township Tarim may refer to: *Tarim, Hadhramaut, a city in Yemen *Tarim District, Yemen * Tarim River, China *Tarim Basin, China ** Tarim mummies, a series of mummies which have been excavated at Niya, an oasis in the Tarim Basin *Tarim, the monotheistic go ...

, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Talimu; , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency / / تارىم يېزىسى) * Dunkuotan Township ( / دۆڭقوتان يېزىسى) * Ka'erquga Township ( / قارچۇغا يېزىسى) * Aksopi Township (Akesupu, Akesufu; / / ئاقسوپى يېزىسى) * Gulbag Township ( / گۈلباغ يېزىسى)

XPCC The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (), also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("The Corps"), is a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In its history, the XPCC has built ...

Regiments (兵团) * 31团场 (31-تۇەن مەيدانى) * 32团场 (32-تۇەن مەيدانى) * 33团场 (33-تۇەن مەيدانى) * 34团场 (34-تۇەن مەيدانى) * 35团场 (35-تۇەن مەيدانى)

Economy

, there was about 2,960 acres (19,564 '' mu'') of cultivated land in Yuli.

Demographics

As of 2015, 68,281 (66.20%) of the 103,143 residents of the county were

Han Chinese The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive va ...

, 33,752 (32.72%) were Uyghur and 1,110 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 70.54% of the population of Yuli (Lopnur) 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 (98.6%), Donghetan Township (98.5%), Akesufu/Akesupu Township (90.1%), Gulebage Township (65.3%), Xingping Township (61.6%) and others.

Transportation

China National Highway 218 China National Highway 218 (G218) runs from Yining, Xinjiang to Ruoqiang, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. It is 1,067 kilometres in length and runs southeast from Yining towards Ruoqiang. The road starts at the Kazakh border. ...

Gallery

File:Operational Navigation Chart F-7, 4th edition.jpg, Map including Yuli and surrounding region ( DMA, 1982) File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nk-45-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Yuli (labeled as WEI-LI) and surrounding region from the

International Map of the World The International Map of the World or IMW (also called the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by th ...

(1975) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-8607404-mongolia-west.jpg, Map including eastern Yuli County area (1935) File:尉犁 2014-05 liuzusai - panoramio (7).jpg, File:阿克苏浦水库 - panoramio.jpg, File:中国新疆尉犁县 China Xinjiang Yuli County 大脚印探险救援！电话（86）13609 - panoramio.jpg, File:尉犁 2014-05 liuzusai - panoramio (3).jpg,

References

{{Authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang Populated places along the Silk Road Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture