Kuitun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 奎屯 (Kuítún).

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Kuitun

1. Synonym of Kuytun: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎^[1], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:

     Another unit mentioning Kazaks specifically is the Seventh Agricultural Division, based at Kuitun, the city directly under the prefectural administration. This division had a total of 193,688 members in 1989, of which minorities were 3.55 percent of 6,876 people.

   • 2009 July 23, Mark O'Neill, “Autonomous legion”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 14, 2021‎^[3]:

     Its headquarters is in Urumqi , the regional capital. It has established new cities, including Kuitun in 1975 and Shihezi in 1976, which has become the second-largest city in Xinjiang. It has its own armed police and citizen's militia, whose mission is to 'support the stability of Xinjiang'.