Manas County
Manas County
Manass | |
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Location of Manas County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (grey) | |
| Coordinates: 44°18′N 86°13′E / 44.300°N 86.217°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Changji |
| County seat | Manas Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 9,171 km2 (3,541 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 192,098 |
| • Density | 21/km2 (54/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛纳斯县 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪納斯縣 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 绥来县 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 綏來縣 | ||||||||||||
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| Uyghur | ماناس ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||||
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Manas County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 9,174 square kilometres (3,542 sq mi) and as of the 2002 census it had a population of 170,000.
The county seat is the old town of Manas, located on the Manas River just east of Shihezi.
Manass has been called: "the biggest city (after Urumchi) in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T'ung-kan (Т′уң-кан, Dungan) population."