Yili Travel Guide

Located in the northwestern border area of China, and with its capital, from Urumqi, the prefecture is con tiguous to Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Covering an area of 350 thousands square kilometer, the prefecture has Ili, Tacheng and Altay prefectures and Kuytun City under its jurisdiction. There are 13 nationalities inhabiting here, namely Kazak, Han, Uygar, Hui, Kirgiz, Mongol, Xibo, Man, Tatar, Uzbek and Russian. and the total population is 3820000. The mineral resources are very abundant in the Tianshan Mountain, Altay Mountains and Tarbahatay Mountains within the prefecture. The Ili River, Ertix River a..[Detalis]