Burqin County is a county in Xinjiang, China and is under the administration of the Kazakh autonomous area of Altay Prefecture. It has an area of with a population of 70,000. The postcode is 836600.
Administrative divisions Burqin County is divided into 4 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Uyghur (UEY) Uyghur Latin (ULY) Kazakh (Arabic script) Kazakh (Cyrillic script) Administrative division code NotesTowns Burqin Town 654321100 Chunkur Town(Chonghur) 654321101 Oymak Town 654321102 Kostik Town 654321103Townships Dolayti Township 654321201 Egiztobe Township 654321204Ethnic township Kom-Kanas Mongolian Ethnic Township 654321205 (Mongolian)
Demographics
Geography
Burqin County is located in the northernmost part of Xinjiang. Its county seat, which is called Burqin Town () is situated at the confluence of the Irtysh and its right tributary, the Burqin River. Most of the county is within the Burqin River basin, which reaches into the Altai Mountains on Xinjiang's border with Mongolia and Russia. The major mountain massif on Burqin county's border with these two countries is Tavan Bogd.
The Kanas Lake is located in the northern part of the county, on the border with the Habahe County.
The Burqin Shankou Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Burqin River at .Google Maps. As of Oct 2013, the satellite view (probably a year or more old) shows the construction site, with a small temporary dam a bit upstream of the point where the permanent dam is being built. It has a 94m high concrete arch dam; the dam's hydroelectric plant generates 220 Megawatt of power. The construction work started in July 2009, with an expected completion date of June 2013;中国水电中标新疆布尔津山口水利枢纽大坝工程 (China Hydro bids on the construction project of the Burqin Shankou Dam Complex in Xinjiang), 2009-07-31 construction was completed in 2014 and the dam started generating power in November 2015.
Farther upstream on the Burqin, the Burqin Chonghu'er Dam operates in the town of Chunkur, at .
Climate
Transport China National Highway 217 Bu'erjin Kanasi Airport
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