Kalpin County
Kalpin County
Kelpin, Koping | |
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Location of Kalpin County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 40°26′36″N 79°02′28″E / 40.44333°N 79.04111°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Aksu |
| County seat | Kelpin Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,912 km2 (3,441 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 50,619 |
| • Density | 5.7/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | كەلپىن ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 柯坪县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 柯坪縣 | ||||||||||
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Kalpin County is a county in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture. The overwhelmingly Uyghur population of the county lives on oases at the base of the Tian Shan (Tangri Tagh) mountains and on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert.