Yining
Yining
Ghulja, Kulja, Ningyuan, Khobak Sari | |
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Yining Location in Xinjiang Yining Yining (Xinjiang) Yining Yining (China) | |
| Coordinates (Yining municipal government): 43°54′29″N 81°16′40″E / 43.9080°N 81.2777°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ili |
| Establishment of the city as the capital city of the Dzungar Khanate | 1630's |
| Founded by | Erdeni Batur |
| Named after | A Monastary |
| Municipal seat | Döngmehelle Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| 616.7 km2 (238.1 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 49 km2 (19 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| 778,047 | |
| • Density | 1,262/km2 (3,268/sq mi) |
| • Urban (2018) | 345,000 |
| • Urban density | 7,000/km2 (18,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 835000 |
| Area code | 0999 |
| Website | Official website |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 伊宁 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 伊寧 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 固勒扎 | ||||||||||
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| Ningyuan | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 宁远 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 寧遠 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | གུལ་ཅ | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Хулж | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠬᠤᠯᠵᠠ | ||||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | غۇلجا | ||||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡤᡡᠯᠵᠠ | ||||||||||
| Abkai | Gvlja | ||||||||||
| Möllendorff | Gūlja | ||||||||||
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| Russian | Кульджа | ||||||||||
| Romanization | Kuldzha | ||||||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||||||
| Kazakh | قۇلجا Құлжа Qulja | ||||||||||
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| Oirat | ᡎᡇᠯᠴᠠ | ||||||||||
| Chagatay name | |||||||||||
| Chagatay | غولجا | ||||||||||
Yining (Chinese: 伊宁), also known as Ghulja (Uyghur: غۇلجا) or Kulja (Kazakh: قۇلجا), is a county-level city in northwestern Xinjiang, China. It is the administrative seat and largest city of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Yining is the modern successor to the nearby ruined city of Almaliq, Huocheng County, and is the third largest city in Xinjiang after Ürümqi and Korla. It was established by Erdeni Batur Khong Tayiji of the Dzungar Khanate.