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Maralbexi County
Maralbexi County (also spelled Maralbeshi, Maralbishi, transliterated from Uyghur: مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 玛热勒巴什县), also known as Bachu County (Chinese: 巴楚县), is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
In 1913, Maralbexi County was established.
In September 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Maralbexi, dividing Ma Hushan's 36th Corps into two sections.
In February 2002, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake killed 267 people in Maralbexi County and Payzawat County.
On February 24, 2003, the 2003 Bachu earthquake occurred.
In April 2013, twenty-one died in an incident in Seriqbuya.
In October 2014, twenty-two died in an incident at a farmer's market in the county.
Maralbexi County includes 4 towns (بازىرى / 镇), 8 townships (يېزىسى / 乡):
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Maralbexi County
Maralbexi County (also spelled Maralbeshi, Maralbishi, transliterated from Uyghur: مارالبېشى ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 玛热勒巴什县), also known as Bachu County (Chinese: 巴楚县), is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
In 1913, Maralbexi County was established.
In September 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Maralbexi, dividing Ma Hushan's 36th Corps into two sections.
In February 2002, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake killed 267 people in Maralbexi County and Payzawat County.
On February 24, 2003, the 2003 Bachu earthquake occurred.
In April 2013, twenty-one died in an incident in Seriqbuya.
In October 2014, twenty-two died in an incident at a farmer's market in the county.
Maralbexi County includes 4 towns (بازىرى / 镇), 8 townships (يېزىسى / 乡):