Orku District ( zh, s=乌尔禾区, t=烏爾禾區, p=Wū'ěrhé Qū; , ) is a district of

Karamay City Karamay (also spelled Karamai) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language ...

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

, China. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 10,000. Orku District is supplied with water by the

Baiyang River The Baiyang River (), also known under a Mongolian name transcribed in Chinese as Namuguolei (), is a river in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. It flows through the region's Tacheng Prefecture and the Urho District of Karamay City. Th ...

and the Irtysh–Karamay Canal. The canal's

Fengcheng Reservoir The Fengcheng Reservoir () is a reservoir on the Irtysh–Karamay Canal in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It is about 15 km north of the main urban area of Urho District of Karamay City; administratively, the location is near the bor ...

is located at the northern border of the district, about north of the district's main urban area.

Administrative divisions

Orku District contains 1

subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, Ind ...

and 1

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

Transport

China National Highway 217 China National Highway 217 (G217) runs south from Altay, Xinjiang, Altay, Xinjiang to Hotan, Xinjiang. It is 1,753 kilometres in length and runs southwest from Altay, Xinjiang, Altay towards Kuqa County and from there southwards through the Tak ...

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References

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