Ruoqiang County

Ruoqiang County
若羌县 (Chinese)
چاقىلىق ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)
Qakilik, Charkhlik, Chochiang
Ruoqiang County (red) within Bayingolin Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Ruoqiang County (red) within Bayingolin Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Ruoqiang is located in Xinjiang
Ruoqiang
Ruoqiang
Location of the seat in Xinjiang
Ruoqiang is located in Bayingolin
Ruoqiang
Ruoqiang
Ruoqiang (Bayingolin)
Ruoqiang is located in China
Ruoqiang
Ruoqiang
Ruoqiang (China)
Coordinates (County government): 39°01′23″N 88°10′01″E / 39.023°N 88.167°E / 39.023; 88.167
CountryChina
RegionXinjiang
Autonomous prefectureBayingolin
County seatRuoqiang Town (Qakilik)
Area
 • Total199,222 km2 (76,920 sq mi)
Elevation
896 m (2,940 ft)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total43,045
 • Density0.22/km2 (0.56/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsHan Chinese, Uyghur[3]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard[a])
Postal code
841800
Area code0966
Websiteloulan.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Ruoqiang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese若羌县
Traditional Chinese婼羌縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese卡克里克县
Traditional Chinese卡克里克縣
Uyghur name
Uyghurچاقىلىق ناھىيىسى
Literal meaningnamed after the town of Charklik

Ruoqiang County (Chinese: 若羌) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qakilik County[4] (Uyghur: چاقىلىق ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 卡克里克县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 198,318 square kilometres (76,571 sq mi) (about twice the size of Zhejiang province and similar to Kyrgyzstan or Senegal),[5] making it the largest county-level division in the country.[6]

The county seat is in Ruoqiang Town. This is the location which less-detailed maps will label as "Ruoqiang". It lies at an altitude of 848 metres (2,782 ft).

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  2. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  3. ^ 1997年若羌县行政区划 [1997 Ruoqiang County Administrative Divisions]. XZQH.org. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2020. 人口2.8万,有维吾尔、汉、回、东乡等11个民族,其中维吾尔族占38.4%,汉族占56%,辖2镇3乡,
  4. ^ Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian (24 November 2019). "Exposed: China's Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved 9 May 2020. The final document — not classified but of a sort rarely seen outside Chinese government circles — is from a 2018 court case in the Qakilik County People's Procuratorate in southern Xinjiang.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "若羌概况". Archived from the original on 2012-12-16. Retrieved 2013-02-24.


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