Yuli County as the official Romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Lopnur County (Lop Nur), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 100,000.
Etymology The etymology was discussed in detail in the article On the Place Name Yuli and Rouran () by Li Shuhui ().
The name Yuli was postulated to have come from Turkic ("one who is stationed; one who stays"), the name of a Turkic clan, and derived from (verb form , "to be stationed in") + -gir (adjectival suffix).
Both and were said to be recorded in the ancient dictionary Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, although the exact Arabic-script forms are unknown, perhaps Üregir, Yüregir, the 15th clan of the Oghuz.
History In 2016, Tuanjie was upgraded from a township to a town.
In 2018, Xingping was upgraded from a township to a town.
Geography The county is bordered to the northeast by Toksun County.
Climate
Administrative divisions Yuli County includes three towns and five townships:
Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Uyghur (UEY) Uyghur Latin (ULY) Mongolian (traditional) Mongolian (Cyrillic) Administrative division code NotesTowns Yuli Town(Lopnur Town) 652823100 Tuanjie Town 652823110 formerly Tuanjie Township (团结乡) Xingping Town 652823120 formerly Xingping Township (兴平乡)Townships Tarim Township, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 652823200 Dongkotan Township 652823203 Karquga Township 652823204 Aksopi Township () () 652823205 Gülbag Township 652823206
Others: XPCC 31st Regiment Farm (兵团三十一团, ) XPCC 33rd Regiment Farm (兵团三十三团, ) XPCC 34th Regiment Farm (兵团三十四团, )
Economy , there was about 2,960 acres (19,564 mu) of cultivated land in Yuli.
Demographics As of 2015, 68,281 (66.20%) of the 103,143 residents of the county were Han Chinese, 33,752 (32.72%) were Uyghur and 1,110 were from other ethnic groups.
As of 1999, 70.54% of the population of Yuli (Lopnur) County was Han Chinese and 28.68% of the population was Uyghur.
As of 1997, several townships had a majority of Uyghur residents including Ka'erquga Township (98.6%), Donghetan Township (98.5%), Akesufu/Akesupu Township (90.1%), Gulebage Township (65.3%), Xingping Township (61.6%) and others.
Transportation China National Highway 218
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See also Qinggir
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