Karasahr"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) Xinjiang