
Manas County
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."