page_title: Ruoqiang County
section_title: Administrative divisions
hierarchical_section_title: Ruoqiang County / Administrative divisions
caption_attribution_description: English: CIA Map of Tibet with "Approximate Line of Communist Advance" and cities "Reportedly occupied by Communists" dated February 1950 and marked "CONFIDENTIAL"
context_page_description: Ruoqiang County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qakilik County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 198,318 square kilometres, making it the largest county-level division in the country.
  The county seat is in Ruoqiang Town. This is the location which less-detailed maps will label as "Ruoqiang". It lies at an altitude of 848 metres.
context_section_description: The county is made up of five towns, three townships and other areas:
  Towns (镇)
  Ruoqiang Town (若羌镇), Yetimbulak (Yitunbulake, Qilanbulak; 依吞布拉克镇), Luobupo (罗布泊镇), Tieganlike (铁干里克镇, formerly 铁干里克乡), Waxxari (Washixia, Wa-shih-hsia; 瓦石峡镇, formerly 瓦石峡乡)
  Townships (乡)
  Wutamu Township (Wu-t'a-mu; 吾塔木乡), Tomorlog Township (Tiemulike; 铁木里克乡), Qimantag Township (Qimantage, Ch'i-man-t'a-ko; چىمەنتاغ يېزىسى / 祁曼塔格乡)
  Others
  兵团36团场
caption: Map including Charkhlik (CIA, 1950)
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