Emin County
Emin County
额敏县 دۆربىلجىن ناھىيىسى | |
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.png) Location of Emin County (red) within Tacheng Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Tacheng Prefecture |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 额敏县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 額敏縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 杜尔布勒津县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 杜爾布勒津縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | دۆربىلجىن ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | ءدوربىلجىن اۋدانى
Kazakh Cyrillic: Дөрбілжін ауданы Kazakh Latin alphabet: Dörbiljin awdanı | ||||||||||
Emin County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Dörbiljin County, is a county situated in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Tacheng Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's districts of Tarbagatay and Zaysan. It has an area of 9,092 km2 (3,510 sq mi) with a population of 200,000. The Postcode is 834600.
Geographically, the county is located on the southern slopes of the Tarbagatai Mountains and in the Emin Valley. The main watercourse is the Emin (Emil) River.
Name
The place was originally named Dörbiljin. In 1918, Yang Zengxin, the governor of Xinjiang, petitioned to have a county set up in the Emin Valley.[1] The new county was named after the Emin (Emil) River.[1]
Transportation
The Karamay–Tacheng Railway (under construction as of 2017) will serve Emin County. [2]