Yarkant County
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/23634
- Note
- "Yarkant County[citation needed], officially known as Shache County[citation needed], also transliterated from Uyghur as Yakan County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. It is one of 11 counties administered under Kashgar Prefecture. The county usually written "Yarkant" or "Yarkand" in English, was the seat of an ancient Buddhist kingdom on the southern branch of the Silk Road. The county sits at an altitude of 1,189 metres (3,901 ft) and as of 2003[update] had a population of 373,492." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.02.2020)
- Latitude
- 38.414459228516
- Longitude
- 77.249641418457
- Population
- 82,509
- Time zone
- Asia/Urumqi
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