Which is bigger, Corps or Ili Prefecture?

The legion is very big. The land area of the Corps is 70,600 square kilometers, accounting for 4.24% of the total area of Xinjiang, and the county (city) directly under Yili Prefecture covers an area of 56,500 square kilometers, so the Corps is larger than Yili Prefecture. Corps is the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which undertakes the duty of stationing wasteland and guarding the frontier entrusted by the state, implements a highly unified special management system of the party, government, army and enterprises, and manages internal administrative and judicial affairs in the reclamation areas under its jurisdiction in accordance with laws and regulations. It is a special social organization that the state implements a separate plan.