Yarkant

Location of Yarkant (pink) in Kashgar (yellow)

This article deals with the district of the administrative district of Kashgar. For the river in Xinjiang, see Yarkant (river) .

Uighur name
Arabic-Persian (Kona Yeziⱪ) :	يەكەن ناھىيىسى
Latin (Yengi Yeziⱪ) :	Yəkən naⱨiyisi
Cyrillic ( Soviet Union ):	Йәркәнд наһийиси
official notation ( PRCh ):	Yarkant
other spellings:	Yarkand
Chinese name
Abbreviation :	莎车 县
Traditional characters :	莎車 縣
Transcription in Pinyin :	Shāchē Xiàn

Yarkant in 1868

Tarim Basin in the 3rd century

Yarkant , also called Jarkand or Jarkend , is a district of the Kashgar administrative district in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It has an area of ​​7960 km².

Its main town is the large community of Yarkant ( Shache Zhen莎车 镇) (38 ° 24'51 "N, 77 ° 14'49" E) between the cities of Kashgar and Hotan on the southern route of the Silk Road in the west of the Tarim Basin .

Yarkant was the center of the Islamic Yarkant Khanate , which existed from 1514 to 1680.

Web links

Commons : Yarkant  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The Uighur nationality (3). China Radio International CRI, April 3, 2006, accessed March 4, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 38 ° 52 '  N , 77 ° 29'  E