Mongolküre County (Mongolian: ᠮᡆᡊᡎᡆᠯᡘᡉᠷᡄᡃ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ; Uighur: موڭغۇلكۈرە ناھىيىسى, romanized: Mongghulküre; Chinese: 蒙古库热县), also Zhaosu County (Chinese: 昭苏县) as the Chinese romanized name, is a county situated within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's Almaty Region to the west. It contains an area of 10,455 km2 (4,037 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 150,000.
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Mongolküre County
昭苏县 · موڭغۇلكۈرە ناھىيىسى | |
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County | |
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![]() Mongolküre County (red) within Ili Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Coordinates: 43°09′26″N 81°07′52″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
Autonomous prefecture | Ili |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Zhaosu County | |||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 昭苏县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 昭蘇縣 | ||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāosū Xiàn | ||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 蒙古库热县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 蒙古庫熱縣 | ||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Ménggǔkùrè Xiàn | ||||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur | موڭغۇلكۈرە ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Todo Mongolian name | |||||||||||
Todo Mongolian | ![]() Moŋgolküree Mongolküre | ||||||||||
Town (镇)
Township (乡)
Ethnic Township (民族乡)
Other (其他)
The town has Shuguang Middle (Secondary) School, formerly Number 1 Middle School.[1]
The primary crops cultivated are potatoes and wheat.[1]
By 2020, the town had restaurants catering to Han Chinese tastes.[1] The county is served by Zhaosu Tianma Airport.
Additional Han people moved to the county circa 2008.[1]
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