Qapqal

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Location of the Xibe (pink) Qapqal Autonomous Okrug in the Ili Autonomous District of Kazakhstan
Name of the Autonomous Okrug in the Xibian language

The Xibian Autonomous Okrug Qapqal ( Chinese  察布查尔 锡伯 自治县 , Pinyin Chábùchá'ěr Xībó zìzhìxiàn ; Uighur چاپچال شىبە ئاپتونوم ناھىيىسى, Qapqal Xibə Aptonom Naⱨiyisi ; Kazakh شاپشال سىبە اۆتونوميالى اۋدانى, Şapşal Sibe Avtonomyalı Awdanı , Xibian ᠴᠠᠪᠴᠠᠯ
ᠰᡞᠪᡝ
ᠪᡝᠶᡝ
ᡩᠠᠰᠠᡢᡤᠠ
ᠰᡞᠶᠠᠨ
, Cabcal Sibe beye dasangga siyan ) is an autonomous district of the Xibe in the Kazakh Autonomous District Ili in the northwest of the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China . Its main town is the large community of Qapqal (察布查尔 镇 /ᠴᠠᠪᠴᠠᠯ). In 1999 it had 157,802 inhabitants.

The Jingyuan Temple ( Jingyuan si ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-809) since 2006 .

Footnotes

  1. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html

Coordinates: 43 ° 50 '  N , 81 ° 11'  E