Burqin County is a small county in the border area with Russia, Kazakstan and Mongolia. It is located at the southwest foot of Altay Mountains and the northern edge of Junggar Basin. It gets its name form the Burqin River. Here the Burqin River flows into the Erqis River. In the Western Han Dynasty (206BC – 24AD), this county was the pasture land of the Huns. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was under the control of Turkic.

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Erqis River is the only one flows towards the west, discharging itself into the Arctic Ocean

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