Karasahr
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/26655
- Note
- "Karasahr or Karashar (Chinese: 焉耆; pinyin: Yān qí; Uyghur: قاراشەھەر, ULY: Qarasheher, Қарашәһәр), which was originally known, in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi) and Agni or the Chinese derivative Yānqí, 焉耆 (Wade–Giles Yen-ch’i), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, in Northwestern China.
As of the 2000 Chinese census[update] it had a population of 29,000, growing to 31,773 persons in 2006; 16,032 persons of which were Han, 7781 people Hui, 7,154 people Uygur, 628 Mongol and 178 other ethnicities and an agricultural population of 1078 people." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020) - Latitude
- 42.049999237061
- Longitude
- 86.566665649414
- Time zone
- Asia/Urumqi
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