Yengisar County, also known as Yingjisha County, is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in southwest Xinjiang, China. It covers an area of 3,373 km². As of the 2002 census, it had a population of 230,000. The county seat is the city of Yengisar, a town well known among the local Uyghurs for its handmade knives. The finely-tuned skill of knife-making used to be p…
Yengisar County, also known as Yingjisha County, is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in southwest Xinjiang, China. It covers an area of 3,373 km². As of the 2002 census, it had a population of 230,000. The county seat is the city of Yengisar, a town well known among the local Uyghurs for its handmade knives. The finely-tuned skill of knife-making used to be passed down among generations in Yengisar, but it is slowly dying due to China's strict response to deadly clashes in Xinjiang.
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