Qinggil County
Qinggil County
Chinggil, Qinghe, Ch'ing-ho | |
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Location of Qinggil County (pink) in Altay Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 46°37′N 90°25′E / 46.617°N 90.417°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Altay |
| County seat | Qinggil |
| Township-level divisions | 5 towns 3 townships |
| Area | |
• Total | 15,579.5 km2 (6,015.3 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,220 m (4,000 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 61,680 |
| • Density | 4.0/km2 (10/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Kazakh |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 836200 |
| Website | xjqh |
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| Simplified Chinese | 青河县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 青河縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | چىڭگىل ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | شىڭگىل اۋدانى Шіңгіл ауданы Şıñgıl audany | ||||||||||
Qinggil County (Uyghur), also Chinggil County, Qinghe County, is a county of Altay Prefecture in northeastern Xinjiang, China, bordering Bayan-Ölgii Province and Khovd Province in Mongolia to the east. It has an area of 15,722 km2 (6,070 sq mi) with a population of 60,000. Qinghe was the site of a meteorite impact in 1898 and a Mongolian–Chinese border clash in the spring of 1944.