Lop County
Lop County
Luopu, Lo-p'u | |
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Rawak Stupa in the Taklamakan Desert | |
Location of Lop County (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 37°04′26″N 80°11′20″E / 37.074°N 80.189°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Hotan |
| County seat | Lop Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 14,287 km2 (5,516 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 286,900 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (52/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 848200 |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | لوپ ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 洛浦县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 洛浦縣 | ||||||||||
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Lop County (ⓘ, Uyghur: لوپ ناھىيىسى), also Luopu (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Almost all the residents of the county are Uyghur and live around oases situated between the desolate Taklamakan Desert and Kunlun Mountains. The county is bordered to the north by Aksu and Awat County in Aksu Prefecture, to the east by Qira/Chira County, to the northwest by Karakax County, to the west by Hotan (Khotan) and to the south and west by Hotan County.