Kargilik County

Yecheng County
叶城县قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى
County

Location of Kargilik County (red) within Kashgar Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Kargilik
Location of the seat in Xinjiang
Coordinates: 37°53′06″N 77°24′47″E / 37.88500°N 77.41306°E / 37.88500; 77.41306Coordinates: 37°53′06″N 77°24′47″E / 37.88500°N 77.41306°E / 37.88500; 77.41306
Country People's Republic of China
Autonomous region Xinjiang
Prefecture Kashgar Prefecture
Seat Kargilik Town
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Yecheng County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 叶城县
Traditional Chinese 葉城縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 喀格勒克县
Traditional Chinese 喀格勒克縣
Uyghur name
Uyghur
قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى

Yecheng County (Chinese: 叶城县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kagilik County (Uyghur: قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 喀格勒克县), is a county in southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It contains an area of 28,600 km². According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 370,000.

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