According to the query of Baidu Encyclopedia, as of April 2023, Hami City has 1 autonomous county and 1 county, which are Barkun Kazak Autonomous County and Yiwu County. They are all in the north of Tianshan Mountain, so they are usually called "two counties in the north of the mountain". Now the 13th Agricultural Division has set up a new city, which belongs to Corps City. One district is Yizhou District, which is also the seat of Hami Municipal Government.

Hami, which was called Kunmo, Kunwu, Yizhou, Yiwu and Hami Wei in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is located in the east of Xinjiang, which spans the north and south of the East Tianshan Mountains, with a distance of about 404 kilometers from east to west and 440 kilometers from north to south. It is adjacent to Jiuquan City in Gansu Province in the east and southeast, Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the south, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Turpan City in the west and southwest, and Mongolia in the north and northeast. With a total area of 14.2 1 10,000 square kilometers and a national boundary of 587.6 kilometers, Laoyemiao Port, a national first-class port, is one of the important ports for the development of border trade between Xinjiang and Mongolia.