Wenquan County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Arixang County, is a county in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's Almaty Region to the north and west. It contains an area of 5,900 km2 (2,300 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 70,000.
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Wenquan County
温泉县 · ᠷᠠᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ · ئارىشاڭ ناھىيىسى | |
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![]() Wenquan County (red) within Bortala Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
![]() ![]() Wenquan Location of the seat in Xinjiang | |
Coordinates (Wenquan County government): 44°58′08″N 81°01′29″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
Autonomous prefecture | Bortala |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 温泉县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 溫泉縣 | ||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阿日相县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 阿日相縣 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | hot springs (from Mongolian) | ||||||||||
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Mongolian name | |||||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠷᠠᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||||||
Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur | ئارىشاڭ ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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