Jeminay County or Jimunai County, is a county situated in the north of 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
Altay Prefecture
Altay Prefecture is located in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 561,667 (2000). It is a part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. At the 2000 census, Altay was the only major subdivision of Ili ...
.
A road border crossing into
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
is located in Jeminay town. The Kazakh settlement across the border is
Maykapshagay near
Zaysan in
East Kazakhstan Region
East Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, translit=Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupi ...
.
Administrative divisions
* Town (镇 / بازارلىق / قالاشىع)
**
Topterek (托普铁热克镇 / توپتېرەك بازىرى / توپتەرەك قالاشىعى)
**
Jimunai (吉木乃镇 / جېمىنەي بازىرى / جەمەنەي قالاشىعى)
** Ulustay (乌拉斯特镇 / ئۇلاستاي بازىرى)
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** Tost Township (托斯特乡 / توست يېزىسى )
** Xalxikay Township (恰勒什海乡 / شالشىقاي يېزىسى / شالشىقاي اۋىلى)
** Kaerjiao Township (喀尔交乡 / قارجاۋ يېزىسى / قارجاۋ اۋىلى)
**
Besterek Township (别斯铁热克乡 / بېستېرەك يېزىسى )
* Others
** 兵团186团 (186-تۇەن مەيدانى)
Demographics
Population
Amongst the county's total population of 37,733, 19,090 of them were men while 18,643 were women. 13,209 people 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 v ...
while 24,524 belonged to the county's fifteen different ethnic minority groups. The Non-agricultural population has a total figure of 18,530 while the Farming population is 19,203; The Urban population accounts for 10,121 people. According to the 2005 census, the native ethnic
Kazaks, accounted for more than sixty percent of the county's total population figure.
Climate
References
External links
Xinjiang's Land Ports and Border Trade
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
China–Kazakhstan border crossings
Altay Prefecture
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