Xayar
English
Map including Xayar (DMA, 1981)
Alternative forms
- Shayar
- Shahyar
Etymology
From Uyghur شايار (shayar).
Proper noun
Xayar
- A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
- 1989, Zheng Ping (郑平), Luo Anji (洛安吉), transl., Xinjiang: the Land and the People (新疆风物志), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, OCLC 28723499, page 150:
- The copper seal of the Qiang elders was unearthed at Sheket in Xayar County in 1958.
- 1990 May 21, Kang Yuzhu, “Results of Hydrocarbon Exploration in Tarim Basin”, in JPRS Report Science and Technology China: Energy, page 26:
- Akkum slope zone: Luntai fracture is this zone's northern boundary. It extends south to near Tarim He and the western boundary is near Xayar County.
- 1994, Zhang Guoan, Yang Qing, Jiao Jian, Su Minggang, “Climatic Change and Its Environmental Effects During This Century in Xinjiang, China”, in Richard G. Zepp, editor, Climate-Biosphere Interactions: Biogenic Emissions and Environmental Effects of Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, OCLC 1027898969, OL 7619186M, page 281:
- Figure 2 illustrates a series of temperatures at Xayar, southern Xinjiang that was reconstructed using a correlation between temperature and a tree ring index. Compared with the average temperature in the last 170 years, the temperature was lower from early this century to the 1920s. It has increased since the late 1920s.
- [2009 February 6, Hoshur, Shohret; Joshua Lipes, “Ethnic Tensions in Xinjiang’s Internet Cafes”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 23 April 2009:
- Internet cafes in Aksu prefecture's Shayar county are frequented by young men from the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group. But the cafes are staffed by Chinese workers who mistreat their clientele, Uyghurs there said.]
- 2014, C.A. Brebbia, H. Bjornlund, editor, Sustainable Irrigation and Drainage V: Management, Technologies and Policies, →ISBN, OCLC 879400270, page 4:
- Xayar County is located in the Ugen River Basin which is one of the branches of the Tarim River.
- 2019, Han Lianchao, Cotton: The Fabric Full of Lies, Citizen Power Initiatives for China, page 42:
- Xinjiang Xayar Prison is located in Xayar County, Aksu District, Southern Xinjiang, which is about 1,130 kilometers away from Urumqi.
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Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Shaya
Translations
county
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