Yengisar County

The name Yengisar is a contraction of the older Yangi Hissar, meaning "New Fortress" in Uyghur (cf. Yenihisar in Turkey). ==History==

In 1499, Ahmad Alaq seized Kashgar and Yengisar from Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat. In 1847 and again in 1857, Kashgar and Yengisar were captured. In 1882, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture () was created. In 1913, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture became Yengisar County. In 1955, Barin, Jamaterek and Ujme were transferred from Yengisar County to Akto County. In September 2017, Horigul Nasir, then 21, was jailed for ten years for allegedly promoting the wearing of head scarves. Her brother Yusupjan Nasir was subsequently demoted from his position as an assistant officer of the Saghan township police office to a security guard at the township's Family Planning Department. ==Administrative Divisions==

Yengisar County included 4 towns, 10 townships, and two other areas: ==Climate==

, there was about 72,700 acres (480,014 mu) of cultivated land in Yengisar. ==Demographics==

{{Historical populations As of 2015, 297,290 of the 302,542 residents of the county were Uyghur, 25,404 were Han Chinese and 851 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 97.82% of the population of Yengisar (Yingjisha) County was Uyghur and 1.79% of the population was Han Chinese. ==Transportation==

Yengisar is served by China National Highway 315 and the Southern Xinjiang railway. ==Wildlife==

The city of Yengisar gave its name to Yangihissar gecko (Cyrtopodion elongatum) lizard species, which occurs throughout eastern Central Asia, including Xinjiang and Gansu Province. ==Notable persons==

• Isa Alptekin, Uyghur nationalist • Erkin Alptekin, 1st President of the World Uyghur Congress • Arken Imirbaki • Yulbars Khan ==Gallery==

File:KKH.png|Map of the Karakoram Highway including Yengisar File:NJ-43-7 Ying-Chi-Sha, China.jpg|Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA) (ACIC, 1969) File:STANFORD(1917) p61 PLATE19. SINKIANG (14597194848).jpg|Map including Yengisar (labeled as Yangihissar) (1917) File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nj-43-5th-ed.jpg|Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA (YANGI HISSAR)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1966) File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg|From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1980) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7a.jpg|Map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1984) File:Yengisar Knife Factory.jpg|Yengisar Knife Factory File:抵达英吉沙县.jpg|Yengisar File:英吉沙街景 - Streetview of Yengisar County - 2015.04 - panoramio.jpg ==Notes==