Karasahr
Sign in to saveKarasahr or Karashar (), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi (), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Karashahr
- Settlement.other_name
- Ārśi; Yanqi; Agni; Kara Shahr; Yenki
- Settlement.native_name
- Qarasheher
- Settlement.official_name
- Karashar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mosque yanqi xinjiang.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Karasahr downtown mosque
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Xinjiang#China
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Xinjiang
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Xinjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Autonomous prefecture
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Autonomous county
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Yanqi
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Karasahr or Karashar (), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi (), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.
it had a population of 29,000, growing to 31,773 people in 2006; 16,032 persons of which were Han, 7781 people Hui, 7154 people Uyghur, 628 Mongol and 178 other ethnicities and an agricultural population of 1078 people.