Aral

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(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.əl/

• Rhymes: -ɛɹəl

Aral

1. A sub-prefectural city in Xinjiang, China.
   • 2011, Stefan Zerbe, Niels Thevs, “Restoring Central Asian Floodplain Ecosystems as Natural Capital and Cultural Heritage in a Continental Desert Environment”, in Sun-Kee Hong, Jianguo Wu, Jae-Eun Kim, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, editors, Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures‎, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 292:

     On a local level, the Poplar Research Institute in Korla and the Tarim University in Aral City have to be added to the list of scientific institutes.

   • 2013 June 13, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, “Chinese Controls on Uyghur Students Ahead of Ramadan”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on June 9, 2016:

     The Uyghur Online website (Uyghurbiz.net) said the students were taken away from Tarim University by police from nearby Aral (in Chinese, Ala'er) city in early May, adding that one of them, identified as Ibrahim, was detained after being accused of "having overseas contacts."

   • 2020 April 13, “Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang”, in Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on 14 April 2020:

     In some of the videos, Han migrants say that any single person below the age of 35 who moves to the sub-prefecture-level cities of Aral (in Chinese, Ala'er) in Aksu (Akesu) prefecture or Tumshuk (Tumushuke) in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture will be provided with a house and a job, while a family of three will receive a two-bedroom home, free utilities for a year, and 40 mu (6.5 acres) of land, tax-free. […]
     Aral was built by the XPCC on an existing Uyghur village beginning in the 1950s and as of 2015, 167,697 of the city’s 179,214 residents were Han, while 6,036 were Uyghur, and 5,481 were from other ethnic groups, according to the XUAR’s Bureau of Statistics. […] “Everyone who is coming to Aral is Han—there are no Uyghurs here and they can’t move here even if they want to,” she said, adding that “it’s a requirement that [people coming here] are Han.”
     “Aral is safe. There are checkpoints every 500 meters (1,640 feet). Additionally, Aral is a place that leader Xi Jinping is specially developing. Safety is good here. If we call the police, they arrive in just one minute.”

   • 2022, Guldana Salimjan, “Recruiting loyal stabilisers: On the banality of carceral colonialism in Xinjiang”, in Xinjiang Year Zero‎, Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:

     In a video recruitment advertisement for the Bingtuan 1st Division in Aral City, Aksu, where more than 99 per cent of the population is Han, the narrator stresses the local population is scarce and the need for labour input is urgent and necessary (see Advertisement No. 25).

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2. A town in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
3. A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
4. Numerous villages in Kyrgyzstan.
5. A surname from Turkish.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ala'er, A-la-erh

• Alar, Arla, Lara, alar