Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture


Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture for Hui people in the middle north of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. The prefecture has an area of and its seat is Changji City.

Subdivisions

Changji directly controls 2 county-level cities, 4 counties and 1 autonomous county.
According to the 2010 census, Changji had a population of 1,428,587 inhabitants, with a population density of 19.4 inhabitants per km². Its population in the 2000 census was 1,503,097. Part of the change in population is due to boundary changes, for example, the formerly county-level city Miquan was merged into Midong District and became part of Ürümqi in 2007. The population in 2000 minus Miquan was 1,322,145.

Sister cities