Wenquan County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Arixang County, is a county in the northwest 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 Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's

Almaty Region Almaty Region ( kk, Алматы облысы, Almaty oblysy; russian: Алматинская область, Almatinskaya oblast) is a region in Kazakhstan, located in the southeastern part of the country. Its capital, from 1997 to 2022 was the ...

to the north and west. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 70,000. Wenquan County2

Climate

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