Xayar County
Xayar County
Shayar, Shaya | |
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Huyanglin Nature Reserve | |
Location of Shayar County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 41°13′48″N 82°48′21″E / 41.23000°N 82.80583°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Aksu |
| Established date | 1902 |
| County seat | Xayar Town (Shayar, Shaya) |
| Area | |
• Total | 31,887.28 km2 (12,311.75 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 278,516 |
| • Density | 8.7/km2 (23/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 842200 |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | شايار ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沙雅县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 沙雅縣 | ||||||||||
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Xayar County, also Shayar County or, from Mandarin Chinese, Shaya, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aqsu Prefecture. It contains an area of 31,868 km2 (12,304 sq mi). According to the 2004 census it has a population of 210,000.