Bole (Bortala) (simplified Chinese: 博乐; traditional Chinese: 博樂; pinyin: Bólè; Uyghur: بۆرتالا, ULY: Börtala, UYY: Bɵrtala?) is a county-level city in Xinjiang. The area is 7517 km² and the total population is 403,700 (2003). Bortala means "brown grasslands/steppe" in Mongolian. Bortala is the seat of Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, which borders to Kazakhstan. Bortala has a railway and highway connections to Urumqi.