Qitai

Location of Qitai County (pink) in Changji Autonomous District (yellow)

Qitai ( Chinese 奇台縣 / 奇台县 , Pinyin Qítái Xiàn , Uighur گۇچۇڭ ناھىيىسى, Guqung Naⱨiyisi ) is a district of the Changji Hui Autonomous District in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of 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 16,709.36 km² and has 230,000 inhabitants (end of 2008).

About 30 km west of the main town Qitai is the neighboring town of Jimsar .

Administrative structure

At the community level, Qitai consists of nine large communities , three communities , three nationality communities , a state farm and a state pasture. These are:

Qitai community (奇台镇), capital, seat of the district government;

Greater community Banjiegou (半截沟镇);

Greater community Dongwan (东湾镇);

Greater community Jebki (吉布库镇);

Greater community Laoqitai (老奇台镇);

Xidi municipality (西地镇);

Large municipality Biliuhe (碧流河镇);

Greater community Sangezhuangzi (三个庄子镇);

Greater community Xibeiwan (西北湾镇);

Gucheng Township (古城乡);

Kariz municipality (坎尔孜乡);

Community Qihu (七户乡);

Community Daquan the Tartars (大泉塔塔尔族乡);

Qorin municipality of the Kazakhs (乔仁哈萨克族乡);

Community Wumachang the Kazakhs (五马场哈萨克族乡);

Qitai State Farm of the Production and Construction Corps (兵团奇台农场);

Beitashan State Pasture of the 6th Agricultural Division of Production

and Construction Corps (兵团农六师北塔山牧场).

Web links

Info page - Chinese

44 89.59Coordinates: 44 ° 0 ' N , 89 ° 35' E