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The Jimsar district ( Chinese 吉木萨尔 县 , Pinyin Jímùsà'ěr Xiàn ; Uighur جىمىسار ناھىيىسى, Jimisar Naⱨiyisi ) is a district of the Changji Hui Autonomous District in the north-central part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China .
The district is located in the south of Djungary and north of the Bogda Shan Mountains . It has an area of 8,169.86 km² and has 130,000 inhabitants.
Its main town is the large community of Jimsar (吉木萨尔 镇).
About 12 km north of the city are the remains of the old ruined city of Beiting ( Beiting gucheng yizhi , also Beshbaliq or Beshbalik ) from the time of the Han dynasty , which has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-217) since 1988 . Beshbaliq was the capital of the Uighur Kaganate and the Kingdom of Qocho . In the Mongol Empire it was at times the seat of one of the five parts of the empire, which included Khoresmia , Transoxania and the oases of Hami .
About 30 km east of the main town is the neighboring town of Qitai .
Web links
- Official web links - Chinese
Coordinates: 43 ° 59 ' N , 89 ° 4' E