| Hutubi County | |
| Other Name: | Kutubi |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Pushpin Map: | China Xinjiang Northern#Xinjiang#China |
| Pushpin Label: | Hutubi |
| Coordinates: | 44.1438°N 142.9128°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Xinjiang |
| Subdivision Type2: | Autonomous prefecture |
| Subdivision Name2: | Changji |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Hutubi Town |
| Area Total Km2: | 9,517.53 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 192,638 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| S: | 呼图壁县 |
| T: | 呼圖壁縣 |
| P: | Hūtúbì Xiàn |
| S2: | 景化县 |
| T2: | 景化縣 |
| P2: | Jǐnghuà Xiàn |
| W: | Hu-t’u-pi Hsien |
| Xej: | خُتُبِ ثِیًا |
| Uig: | قۇتۇبى ناھىيىسى |
| Uly: | Qutubi nahiyisi |
| Uyy: | K̡utubi nah̡iyisi |
| Sgs: | Kutubi Nahiyisi |
| Usy: | Қутубиқ наһийиси |
| Order: | st |
Hutubi County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kutubi County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 9,476 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000. Hutubi is 61.7km (38.3miles) by road north-west of Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang.[2]
Hutubi County is made up of 6 towns and 1 ethnic township.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Uyghur (UEY) | Uyghur Latin (ULY) | Administrative division code | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towns | ||||||
| Hutubi Town (Kutubi Town) | Chinese: 呼图壁镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: قۇتۇبى بازىرى | 652323100 | |||
| Dafeng Town | Chinese: 大丰镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: دافېڭ بازىرى | 652323101 | |||
| Que'ergou Town | Chinese: 雀尔沟镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: چۇرگۇل بازىرى | 652323102 | |||
| Ershilidian Town | Chinese: 二十里店镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: ئەرشىلىدەن بازىرى | 652323103 | |||
| Yuanhucun Town | Chinese: 园户村镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: يۈەنخۇسۇن بازىرى | 652323104 | |||
| Wugongtai Town | Chinese: 五工台镇 | Uighur; Uyghur: ۋۇگۇڭتەي بازىرى | 652323105 | |||
| Ethnic Township | ||||||
| Shitizi Kazakh Ethnic Township | Chinese: 石梯子哈萨克民族乡 | Uighur; Uyghur: تاشپەلەمپەي قازاق يېزىسى | 652323201 | (Kazakh) Kazakh: شىتيزى قازاق اۋىلى | ||
Hutubi is served by China National Highway 312, the Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi–Jinghe Railways.
Petroglyphs were recorded in Qutubi County at Kangjiashimenzi and are interpreted as representing male fertility worship. This is because in the two depictions of copulation, the males have faces on their chests, suggesting that the petroglyph's creators believed that males were the source of children. The alleged superiority of the petroglyph's male subjects was the basis for the researcher's conclusion that they were created after 1500 BCE, when it is believed that matriarchal societies were replaced by patriarchies.[3]