page_title: Manas County
hierarchical_section_title: Manas County
caption_attribution_description: Location of Manas County (pink) and Changji Prefecture (yellow) within Xinjiang autonomous region of China Map drawn in september 2007 using various sources, mainly&#160;: Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region administrative regions GIS data: 1:1M, County level, 1990 Xinjiang Counties map from www.hua2.com
context_page_description: Manas County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 9,174 square kilometres and as of the 2002 census it had a population of 170,000.
  The county seat is the old town of Manas, located on the Manasi River just east of Shihezi.
  Manass has been called: "the biggest city in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T’ung-kan population."
context_section_description: Manas County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of 9,174 square kilometres (3,542 sq mi) and as of the 2002 census it had a population of 170,000.
  The county seat is the old town of Manas (玛纳斯), located on the Manasi River just east of Shihezi.
  Manass has been called: "the biggest city (after Urumchi) in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T’ung-kan (Т′уң-кан, Dungan) population."
caption: Location of Manas County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (grey)
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