Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County

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Barköl County 巴里坤县 باركۆل ناھىيىسى
Autonomous county
Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County 巴里坤哈萨克自治县 باركۆل قازاق ئاپتونوم ناھىيىسى باركول قازاق اۆتونوميالى اۋدانى‎ Barkól Qazaq aýtonomııalyq aýdany
Location of Barköl County (red) within Hami City (yellow) and Xinjiang
Coordinates: 43°35′56″N 93°01′01″E / 43.599°N 93.017°E / 43.599; 93.017Coordinates: 43°35′56″N 93°01′01″E / 43.599°N 93.017°E / 43.599; 93.017
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Xinjiang
Prefecture-level city	Hami
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Barköl Kazak Autonomous County (sometimes Barkul or Balikul in English) is part of Kumul Prefecture in Xinjiang and has an area of 38,445.3 km² (14,843.8 sq mi). It forms part of the China–Mongolia border (bordering the Mongolian provinces of Khovd and Govi-Altai) on the county's north, while bordering Yizhou District to the south, Yiwu County to the east and Changji's Mori Kazakh Autonomous County to the west.

Barköl was made an autonomous county on October 1, 1954. It is noted for camel and horse breeding with the Barköl horse well known throughout China. Due to the large number of camels, which is unparalleled in China, the county is nicknamed of the "county of ten thousand camels".

Demographics[]

The proportion of nationalities in Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County Nationality Percentage Han People   61.2% Kazakhs   36.3% Mongols   1.6% Hui People   0.4% Uyghurs   0.2% Others   0.3% Source of the population statistics : [1]

Lake Barkol[]

Lake Barkol or Barskul (Lake of Snow Leopard, بارسكۆل, Uyghur), is an alkali lake in a closed basin located at

43°40′05″N 92°48′11″E / 43.668°N 92.803°E / 43.668; 92.803. Current rainfall averages 210 millimetres (8.3 in), while the annual evaporation rate is 2,250 millimetres (89 in). Ancient shorelines show up as concentric rings on the satellite photo at right, indicating that water levels have varied many times in the past. One study identified five climates at Lake Barkol over the past 8,000 years, ranging from warm and wet to cold and wet and finally cold and dry at present. The average annual temperature in the area is now just 1 °C (34 °F), though temperatures swing from extreme highs (33.5 °C (92.3 °F)) to extreme lows (−43.6 °C (−46.5 °F)).^[2]

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