Kargilik County
Yecheng County | |
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.png) Location of Kargilik County (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Kargilik Location of the seat in Xinjiang  Kargilik Kargilik (Xinjiang)  Kargilik Kargilik (China) | |
| Coordinates: 37°53′06″N 77°24′47″E / 37.88500°N 77.41306°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Kashgar |
| County seat | Kargilik |
| Area | |
• Total | 28,558.89 km2 (11,026.65 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 525,436 |
| • Density | 18/km2 (48/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur, Han Chinese[2][3] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard[a]) |
| Postal code | 844900 |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 葉城縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶城县 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 喀格勒克縣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 喀格勒克县 | ||||||||||
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Kargilik County[4][5] (Uyghur: قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى), also known as Yecheng County (Chinese: 叶城县), is a county in southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It contains an area of 28,600 km2. To the north, the county borders Makit County. To the east, the county borders Guma County (Pishan) in Hotan Prefecture. To the west, the county borders Yarkant County, Poskam County and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County. In the south, the county has a border of more than 80 km (50 mi) with Pakistan and India administered areas of Kashmir.[2]
- ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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有维吾尔、汉、柯尔克孜、乌孜别克、塔吉克、回等民族，其中维吾尔族占93％，汉族占6％，
- ^ "Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on June 23, 2014". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
The Xinhua news agency has released information on the terrorist violent attack happened on June 21 in Kargilik county of Xinjiang, to which you may refer.
- ^ Li Fangfang (23 February 2017). "Opportunity in Diversity". Beijing Review. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
Four years ago, Nurahmet Memet was a farmer in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Today, he no longer leads a hardscrabble life in southern Kargilik County, next to the Taklamakan Desert, and instead has become a successful company manager and businessman after relocating to central Xinjiang.
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