Manas County
玛纳斯县 ماناس ناھىيىسى 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°ECoordinates: 44°18′N 86°13′E / 44.300°N 86.217°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture |
| Township-level divisions | 6 towns 3 townships 3 ethnic townships |
| County seat | Manas Town (玛纳斯镇) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| 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[update] census it had a population of 170,000.
The county seat is the old town of Manas (玛纳斯), located on the Manasi 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."[1]
