Aral[2][3] is a sub-prefecture-level city surrounded by Aksu Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

According to Radio Free Asia, a United States government-funded news service, Aral was created in the 1950s by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to facilitate Han Chinese immigration to the region.

[8] Aral contains three subdistricts, 15 towns, a township, and two township-equivalent regions: The city has an administrative area of 5,258.739 km2 (2,030.410 sq mi).

It is bordered by mountainous regions to the north and northwest and the Taklamakan Desert to the east and south.

5The claimed province of Taiwan no longer have any internal division announced by Ministry of Civil Affairs of PRC, due to lack of actual jurisdiction.