Shule County as the official romanized name, also
transliterated from Uyghur as Kaxgar Yengixahar County or shorten as Yengixahar County, is a county situated in the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the
Kashgar Prefecture. It is located to the south of
Kashgar City. In Ancient times, the Shule area was once the home to a
Xiyu oasis civilisation, the
Shule Kingdom.
History
On May 31, 2012, Sidik Kurban was sentenced by Shule County Intermediate People’s Court to fifteen years in jail and five years deprivation of political rights for 'inciting ethnic separatism' related to involvement in 'illegal religious activities'. For a decade, he had overseen home-based religious schools for eighty-six students.
Administrative divisions
Towns ( / )
*
Yengisheher Town (Shule;
/ , ),
Hanerik (Hannanlike;
/ ),
Yapchan (Yafuquan;
/ )
Townships ( / )
*
Barin Township (Baren;
/ ),
Yanduma Township (Yandaman; / ),
Yamanyar Township (Yamanya; / ),
Baghchi Township (Baheqi; / ),
Tazghun Township (Tazihong;
/ ),
Yengierik Township (Ying'erlike; / ),
Kumusherik Township (Kumuxilike; / ),
Tagharchi Township (Taga'erqi; / ),
Ermudun Township (Ai'ermudong; / ),
Aral Township (Alali; / ),
Harap Township (Alilafu;
/ ),
Yengiawat Township (Ying'awati; / )
Others
*
Linchang (林场),
Liangzhong Farm (良种场) ,
Zhongchu Farm (种畜场) ,
Yuanyi Fields (园艺场) ,
Canzhong Farm (蚕种场) , Shuichan Farm (水产场) , Fengchang 蜂场 , XPCC 41 base (兵团41团)
Economy
, there was about 85,400 acres (555,448 ''
mu'') of cultivated land in Shule.
Demographics
As of 2015, 350,301 of the 377,029 residents of the county were
Uyghur, 25,709 were
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctiv ...
and 1,019 were from other ethnic groups.
As of 1999, 93% of the population of Yengixahar (Shule) County was Uyghur and 6.7% of the population was Han Chinese.
Transportation
Shule is served by
China National Highway 315 and the
Kashgar-Hotan Railway.
Notable persons
*
Almikhan Seyit / Alimihan Seiti ( / ) , claimed to have died at 132 years old
Historical maps
Maps including Shule:
File:STANFORD(1917) p61 PLATE19. SINKIANG (14597194848).jpg, Map including Shule (labeled as Yangishahr) (1917)
File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nj-43-5th-ed.jpg, Map including Shule (labeled as SU-LO) from the International Map of the World
The International Map of the World or IMW (also called the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by th ...
( AMS, 1966)
File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Shule (labeled as SHULE (SU-LE) (walled)) ( DMA, 1980)
File:NJ-43-3 Kashi, China.jpg, Map including Shule (Shu-le) ( DMA, 1983)
File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7a.jpg, Map including Shule (labeled as SHULE (SU-LE) (walled)) ( DMA, 1984)
Notes
References
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Kashgar Prefecture
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