Yarkant County
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Yarkant County is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, with administrative division code 653125.

## Administrative status

Yarkant County is part of [Kashgar Prefecture](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/kashgar.html) (prefecture)[^mca2023].

## Basic facts

- Administrative division code: 653125[^mca2023]
- Area: 8,956.69 km²[^wikidata]
- Population: 860,800 (2020)[^wikidata]

Updated: 2026-10-29

Tags:
- Administrative division https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/tags/admin-division.html

Relations:
- Located in: Kashgar Prefecture https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/kashgar.html (依据民政部2023年县以上行政区划代码的隶属层级。)

Mentioned in:
- Kashgar Prefecture https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/kashgar.html

Sources:
- 2023年中华人民共和国县以上行政区划代码（民政部） https://www.mca.gov.cn/mzsj/xzqh/2023/202301xzqh.html 代码 653125 莎车县
- Wikidata Q857618 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q857618
- Yarkant County (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkant_County
- 莎车县（维基百科） https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%8E%E8%BD%A6%E5%8E%BF