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- Administrative area
- County-level city · 县级市
- Part of
- Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
- Chinese name
- 阿拉山口市
- Local areas
- County-level city guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 1,204.00 km²
- Population · 2020
- 11,097
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
A border corridor
The city lies in northeastern Bortala (博尔塔拉), adjoining Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) to the northwest. Ebinur Lake’s wetlands (艾比湖湿地) lie to its southeast, and Bole (博乐市) is about eighty kilometres to the southwest. The border extends for roughly twenty-six kilometres. Across it, Dostyk railway station (多斯特克站) is about twelve kilometres away. This corridor historically carried merchants and travellers along the northern Silk Road (丝绸之路).
Two railway gauges
The State Council approved the port in June 1990 and the city in December 2012. Its rail facilities include both standard-gauge and broad-gauge lines, with separate arrival, shunting and transshipment tracks. The city’s freight traffic includes imported crude oil and metal ores.
Sources for this guide
阿拉山口市基本情况_阿拉山口概况_阿拉山口市人民政府 · Alashankou Municipal People’s Government
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-27.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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