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Xinhe County, Xinjiang

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Country
  
China

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Prefecture-level division
  
Aksu Prefecture

Prefecture-level divisions
  
Aksu Prefecture

Province
  
Xinjiang

Xinhe County, Xinjiang

Xinhe County, formerly Toqsu County (Uyghur: توقسۇ ناھىيىسى, Тоқсу Наһийиси‎, ULY: Toqsu Nahiyisi, UYY: Tok̡su Nah̡iyisi?; Chinese: 新和县; pinyin: Xīnhé Xiàn) is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture. It contains an area of 5,821 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 140,000.

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Map of Xinhe, Aksu, Xinjiang, China

Name

The county's original name Toksu was changed into Xinhe in 1941. "Xinhe" is the abbreviation of "Xinjiang Heping" ("新疆和平"), literally "Xinjiang Peace."

Transportation

Xinhe is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway.

References

Xinhe County, Xinjiang Wikipedia