Aksu Prefecture is located in mid-Western Xinjiang , China. It has an area of 131,161 km (50,642 sq mi) and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. The name Aksu is Turkic for 'white water'. Aksu Prefecture has a 263.8 km (163.9 mi) long international boundary with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan .
6-650: The name Aksu comes from the name of the Aksu River which is Turkic for 'white water'. The name is similar to that of the nearby Zhetysu region which means "seven rivers". The name of Aksu Prefecture's Onsu County (Wensu) means "ten water" in Uyghur and other Turkic languages, and 'Kizilsu' in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture means 'red water'- all of these names consist of a descriptor followed by 'su' (river; water). In 717 AD,
12-656: The Taklamakan desert . Agriculture is only possible in the areas irrigated by the Tarim River and its glacier-fed tributaries, the Aksu River and the Muzart River . Aksu Prefecture surrounds Aral, Xinjiang . Aksu Prefecture is divided into 2 county-level cities and 8 counties : As of 2020, 2,051,412 (80.1%) of the 2,561,674 residents of the county were Uyghur , 475,323 (18.6%) were Han Chinese and 34,939 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 75.0% of
18-761: The Xinjiang province in China and Ak-Suu District of Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan . Its upper section in Kyrgyzstan is known as the Saryjaz River or Sarydzhaz River ( Chinese : 萨雷扎兹河 , Kyrgyz : Сарыжаз ). The middle section, between the Kyrgyz-Chinese border and the confluence with the Toshkan , is called Kumarik River ( Chinese : 库玛拉克河 , Kyrgyz : Сарыжаз ). The total length of
24-677: The Arabs, guided by their Turgesh allies, besieged Buat-ɦuɑn (撥換, Aksu ) and Dai-dʑiᴇk-dʑiᴇŋ (大石城, Uqturpan ) in the Battle of Aksu . During the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China , 214 Uyghur workers were sent to Jiujiang , Jiangxi . The prefecture occupies the northwestern part of the Tarim Basin and the southern slopes of the Tian Shan . The southern part of the prefecture is within
30-462: The population of Aksu (Aqsu, Akesu) Prefecture was Uyghur and 23.7% of the population was Han Chinese. Aksu River (Xinjiang) The Aksu River ( Uyghur : ئاقسۇ دەرياسى , romanized : Aqsu deryasi ; simplified Chinese : 阿克苏河 ; traditional Chinese : 阿克蘇河 ; pinyin : Ākèsū Hé ; means "white/clear water" in Uyghur and Kyrgyz languages ) is a transboundary river in
36-639: The river is 282 kilometres (175 mi), of which 197 kilometres (122 mi) are in Kyrgyzstan. It has a drainage basin of 12,900 square kilometres (5,000 sq mi) in Kyrgyzstan. The Aksu is the only one of the Tarim's source rivers to run throughout the year. The river takes its roots at the Semyonov glacier in the Central Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, close to the tripoint with Kazakhstan and China. From here it first runs towards
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