Yengisar County
County of Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Shule County or Xinshi District, Ürümqi.
Yengisar County[5][6][7][8][9][10] (formerly transliterated as Yangi Hissar, from Uyghur: يېڭىسار ناھىيىسى[11]), also known as Yingjisha County[12][13] (Chinese: 英吉沙县), is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in southwest Xinjiang, China. It covers an area of 3,373 km2 (1,302 sq mi). As of the 2002 census, it had a population of 230,000.
Quick Facts يېڭىسار ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)英吉沙县 (Chinese)Yangi Hissar, Yingjisha, Country ...
Yengisar County
Yangi Hissar, Yingjisha | |
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Coordinates: 38°55′33″N 76°10′17″E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
Prefecture | Kashgar |
County seat | Yengisar |
Area | |
• Total | 3,425 km2 (1,322 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[3] | |
• Total | 276,641 |
• Density | 81/km2 (210/sq mi) |
Ethnic groups | |
• Major ethnic groups | Uyghur[4] |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard[lower-alpha 1]) |
Postal code | 844500 |
Website | www |
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Quick Facts Uyghur name, Uyghur ...
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Uyghur name | |||||||||
Uyghur | يېڭىسار ناھىيىسى | ||||||||
Literal meaning | new town county | ||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 英吉沙县 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 英吉沙縣 | ||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 新城县 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 新城縣 | ||||||||
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The county seat is the city of Yengisar, a town well known among the local Uyghurs for its handmade knives. The finely-tuned skill of knife-making used to be passed down among generations in Yengisar,[14] but it is slowly dying due to China's strict response to deadly clashes in Xinjiang.[15]