Yiwu County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Aratürük County (; ), is a county in the northeast of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hami City. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 20,000.
Yiwu was the site of the final battle in mainland China of the Chinese Civil War. There is a monument in Yiwu to a horse who greatly aided the People's Liberation Army during the battle.
Subdivisions Yiwu County is divided into 3 towns, 3 townships, 1 ethnic township.
Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Uyghur (UEY) Uyghur Latin (ULY) Other name Administrative division codeTowns Aratürük Town(Yiwu Town) 650522100 Nom Town(Naomaohu Town) 650522101 Tuzköl Town(Yanchi Town) 650522102Townships Adakh Township(Weizixia Township) 650522201 Bay Township(Xiamaya Township) 650522202 Tuhulu Township 650522204Ethnic township Nerinkir Kazakh Ethnic Township (Kazakh) 650522205
Demographics
Geography The Yiwu County is located in the northeastern part of the prefecture, between the Qarliq Shan mountain range (along which it borders on Hami City) and the border with Mongolia's Govi-Altai Province. Outside of the mountain range, most of the county is within the Gobi Desert.
Some of the county important populated places are located in the oases irrigated by the intermittent Yiwu River, which flows north from the mountains, eventually disappearing in the desert. These include, from south to north, Yiwu Town (, the county seat), Weizi Xia Township () and Laomao Hu Town ().
As of the 1920s, the area of today's Yiwu town was referred to as "Tuhulu" ()Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan. 1929. and that name is still retained by the Tuhulu Township () adjacent to today's Yiwu town. At the time, it was the first place with an actual river and some agriculture that weary travellers from the east would reach after crossing several hundreds of kilometers of desert (since crossing Edsin Gol, a River in Inner Mongolia).
Other places in the county include Qianshan Kazakh Township (), Yanchi Township () and Xiamaya Township ().
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