Yining County

Yining County (Chinese: 伊宁县), also transliterated from Uyghur as Ghulja County (Uyghur: غۇلجا ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 固勒扎县), is a county of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The county seat is in the town of Jëlilyüzi. Yining County does not include the adjacent city of Yining, which is a county-level administrative unit in its own right. The county land area is 4486 km2, with a population of 360,000 people as of 2004. A larger area (around 4580 km2) and a population of 400,000 was reported for the county in 2000; this decrease and the corresponding increase of area and population for the city of Yining resulted from the transfer of the villages of Dadamtu (Uyghur: دادامتۇ, Дадамту; 达达木图; Dádámùtú) and Penjim (Uyghur: پەنجىم, Пәнҗим; 潘津; Pānjīn), with 100.45 km2 (38.78 sq mi) of land, from the county to the city in 2004.