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Key facts
- Country
- China
- Province
- Xinjiang
- Seat
- Aksu City
- Prefecture
- 127,817 km (49,350 sq mi)
- Urban
- 14,415 km (5,566 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 1,519 m (4,984 ft)
- Density
- 21.2368/km (55.0030/sq mi)
- Per capita
- CN¥ 56,892, US$ 8,820
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( China Standard )
- Iso 3166 code
- CN-XJ-29
- License plate
- 新N
- Website
- www .aksu .gov .cn
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Uyghur name Uyghur ئاقسۇ ۋىلايىتى
Aksu Prefecture is located in west-central 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aksu Prefecture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.