Yengisar County
Yengisar County (formerly transliterated as Yangi Hissar, from Uyghur: يېڭىسار ناھىيىسى), also known as Yingjisha County (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.
Yengisar County
Yangi Hissar, Yingjisha | |
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Signs advertising Yengisar's famous knives | |
Location of Yengisar County (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) in Xinjiang | |
Yengisar Location of the seat in Xinjiang Yengisar Yengisar (Xinjiang) Yengisar Yengisar (China) | |
| 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) | |
| • Total | 276,641 |
| • Density | 81/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 844500 |
| Website | www |
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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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| 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, but it is slowly dying due to China's strict response to deadly clashes in Xinjiang.
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