Lop County

Lop County لوپ ناھىيىسى (Uyghur) 洛浦县 (Chinese) Luopu, Lo-p'u
County
Rawak Stupa in the Taklamakan Desert
Location of Lop County (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Lop Location of the seat in Xinjiang Lop Lop (Xinjiang) Lop Lop (China)
Coordinates: 37.074°N 80.189°E / 37.074; 80.189
Country	China
Autonomous region	Xinjiang
Prefecture	Hotan
County seat	Lop Town
Area
• Total	14,287 km2 (5,516 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	286,900
• Density	20.08/km2 (52.01/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
• Major ethnic groups	Uyghur
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	848200
Website	www.xjlpx.gov.cn (in Chinese)

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Lop County
Uyghur name
Uyghur	لوپ ناھىيىسى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Lop Nahiyisi Yengi Yeziⱪ Lop Naⱨiyisi SASM/GNC Lop Nahiyisi Siril Yëziqi Лоп Наһийиси
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	洛浦县
Traditional Chinese	洛浦縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Luòpǔ Xiàn Wade–Giles Lo⁴-pʻu³ Hsien⁴

Lop County (pronunciation^ⓘ, Uyghur: لوپ ناھىيىسى), also Luopu (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Almost all the residents of the county are Uyghur and live around oases situated between the desolate Taklamakan Desert and Kunlun Mountains. The county is bordered to the north by Aksu and Awat County in Aksu Prefecture, to the east by Qira/Chira County, to the northwest by Karakax County, to the west by Hotan (Khotan) and to the south and west by Hotan County.