Yarkant County

China

Yarkant County connects to 5216 places across 11 topics through 39 Bunkabop connections, with cotton industry, history, maize cuisine and transport among them. Its strongest overlaps are with China, India and Iran. Yarkant was the terminus for caravans from Kashmir over the Karakoram Pass. China National Highway 219, built in 1956, starts in Yecheng/Yarkant and crosses Aksai Chin. Today Yarkant is a predominantly Uyghur settlement with a small Tajik minority.

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