Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
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| ISO 3166 code | CN-XJ-27 |
| Website | www |
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Mongolian Cyrillic | Борталын монгол үндэстний өөртөө засах жуу | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯᠠ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur | بۆرتالا موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى | ||||||||||
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| Oirat | ᡋᡆᠷᡆᡐᠠᠯᠠ ᡏᡆᡊᡎᡆᠯ ᡄᡋᡄᠷᡄᡃᠨ ᠴᠠᠰᠠᡍᡇ ᡓᡇᡇ Borotala mongγol ebereen zasaqu ǰuu | ||||||||||
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture[a] is an autonomous prefecture in the northern Xinjiang, China. Its capital is Bole, also known as Bortala. It has a population of 475,483 inhabiting an area of 27,000 km2 (10,000 sq mi). Despite being designated an autonomous area for Mongols in China, only a little over five and a half per cent of Bortala's population is Mongol.
Etymology
"Bortala" comes from the Mongolian words boro tala, which mean "brown steppe".
Geography
Bortala is located in the southwestern part of the
The prefecture borders
The prefecture has two large lakes,
Administrative divisions
Bortala is divided into two county-level cities, Bole and Alashankou; and two counties: Jinghe County and Wenquan County. In addition, it is home to the Fifth Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and its 11 regiment-level farms / ranches.
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| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Uyghur (UEY) | Uyghur Latin (ULY) | Mongolian | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
| Bole[2] | 博乐市 | Bólè Shì | بۆرتالا شەھىرى | Börtala Shehiri | ᠪᠣᠷᠢᠲᠠᠯᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | 235,585 | 7,802 | 30.19 |
| Alashankou | 阿拉山口市 | Ālāshānkǒu Shì | ﺋﺎﻻﺗﺎﯞ ﺋﯧﻐﯩﺰﻯ | Alataw Shehiri | ᠠᠯᠠᠭ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | 10,000(?) | 43 | 232.55 |
| Jinghe County[2] | 精河县 | Jīnghé Xiàn | جىڭ ناھىيىسى | Jing Nahiyisi | ᠵᠢᠩ ᠾᠧ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | 141,593 | 11,189 | 12.65 |
| Wenquan County[2] | 温泉县 | Wēnquán Xiàn | ئارىشاڭ ناھىيىسى | Arishang Nahiyisi | ᠷᠠᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | 66,502 | 5,862 | 11.34 |
History
The
.The People's Republic of China established the autonomous prefecture on July 13, 1954.
Demographics
There are 35
- Population by ethnicity as of 2000 and 2010.[3]
| Ethnicity | Population 2000 |
% | Population 2010 |
% |
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| Han | 284,915 | 67.18% | 288,220 | 64.96% |
| Uyghur | 53,145 | 12.53% | 59,106 | 13.32% |
| Kazakhs | 38,744 | 9.13% | 44,417 | 10.01% |
| Mongol | 23,927 | 5.64% | 25,125 | 5.66% |
| Hui | 19,053 | 4.49% | 23,180 | 5.22% |
| Dongxiang | 1,587 | 0.37% | 1,455 | 0.33% |
| Zhuang | 345 | 0.08% | ||
| Xibe | 273 | 0.06% | ||
| Tibetan | 271 | 0.06% | ||
| Tujia | 267 | 0.06% | ||
| Manchu | 193 | 0.04% | ||
| Russian | 114 | 0.03% | ||
| Uzbek | 90 | 0.02% | ||
| Kyrgyz | 74 | 0.02% | ||
| Others | 2,669 | 550 | 0.12% | |
| Total | 424,100 | 100% | 443,680 | 100% |
Economy
In 2004 the prefecture had a total gross domestic product of 3.69 billion Renminbi (including the XPCC 5th division), an increase of 11.9% over the previous year. Annual total imports and exports totalled US$ 554 million, an increase of 96.8% over the previous year. Average annual salary was 11000 Renminbi, an increase of 7.6%; average annual pure income per capita for agricultural workers was 3904 Renminbi, an increase of 10.8%.
Transport
Notes
References
- ^ a b "博尔塔拉州2019年国民经济和社会发展统计公报" (in Chinese). 19 April 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ ISBN 7-5031-1718-4.
- ^ ISBN 978-1135078751.
External links
- Bortala Government website Archived 2021-02-06 at the Wayback Machine(in Chinese)
- Bortala Government website(in Mongolian)