The Yining County is a county within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

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 of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China

China

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. The county seat is in the town of Jiliyuzi (吉里于孜).

Yining County does not include the adjacent City of Yining, which is a county-level administrative unit in its own right.

The county land area is 4486 km², with the population of 360,000 people as of 2004.

A larger area (around 4580 km²) and population (400,000) was reported for the county 2000; this decrease, and the corresponding increase of area and population for the City of Yining resulted from the transfer of the villages of Dadamutu (达达木图) and Panjin (潘津), with 100.45 km² of land, from the County to the City in 2004.

History

The county was created in 1888, and was originally known as Ningyuan (宁远) County. It received its present name in 1914.

In 1952, the City of Yining was separated from Yining County into a separate county-level administrative unit.

External links

• County Government
• Map of Yining County (Borders shown as they were before the transfer of the villages of Dadamutu (达达木图乡 on the map) and Panjin (潘津乡 on the map) to the City of Yining in 2004)