QAPQAL XIBE AUTONOMOUS COUNTY

"Sibo military colonists", picture drawn by Henry Lansdell visit to today's Qapqal County in 1882

'Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County' (simplified Chinese: 察布查尔錫伯自治县; pinyin: Chábùchá'ěr Xíbó Zìzhìxiàn; Xibe: Cabcal Sibe Zijysiyan, also transliterated as '''Chapchal''') in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in northern Xinjiang is the only Xibe autonomous county of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 4,430 square kilometers and a population 160,000 (2000). ''Qapqal'' means "the granary" in the Xibe language.

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★ County info page, at an Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture info site

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