Manas County This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Manas_County".
Manas County (Chinese: 玛纳斯县, Maneisi Xian; Uyghur: ماناس ناھىيىسى, Manas Nahiyisi, Manas Nah̡iyisi) is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 9,174 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 170,000.
The county seat is the old town of Manas (玛纳斯), located on the river of the same name just east of Shihezi.