Why visit Yengisar
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Weather in Yengisar
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About Yengisar
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.
From the Wikipedia article Yengisar County (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parks, trails and playgrounds4
Schools, colleges and libraries10
Healthcare1
History
In 1499, Ahmad Alaq seized Kashgar and Yengisar from Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat.
In 1847 and again in 1857, Kashgar and Yengisar were captured.
In 1882, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture (英吉沙直隸廳) was created.
In 1913, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture became Yengisar County.
The Battle of Yangi Hissar took place here in April 1934, when Ma Zhancang led the Chinese Muslim 36th division to attack the Turkic Muslim Uighur forces at Yangi Hissar, wiping out the entire Uighur force of 500 and killing the Emir Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra.
In 1955, Barin, Jamaterek and Ujme were transferred from Yengisar County to Akto County.
In September 2017, Horigul Nasir, then 21, was jailed for ten years for allegedly promoting the wearing of head scarves. Her brother Yusupjan Nasir was subsequently demoted from his position as an assistant officer of the Saghan township police office to a security guard at the township's Family Planning Department.
From the History section of Yengisar County on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Yengisar
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Getting there and nearby towns
Kashgar Airport (KHG) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 70 km away.
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- 英吉沙街景 - Streetview of Yengisar County - 2015.04 - panoramio, rheins, CC BY 3.0
- ISS053-E-370087 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-373683 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-373684 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-370088 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- 喀拉巴什水库 - Karabax Reservoir - 2015.04 - panoramio, rheins, CC BY 3.0
- ISS053-E-373682 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-373681 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-370085 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-370086 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS016-E-5033 - View of Pakistan, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-370090 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-370089 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-373686 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-373685 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
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