Kargilik Town
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉城 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶城 | ||||||||||
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| Han Dynasty name | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 西夜 | ||||||||||
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| Alternate Han Dynasty name | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 漂沙 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Drifting Sands | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur |
قاغىلىق
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yèchéng |
| Wade–Giles | Yeh-ch'êng |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xi yè |
| Wade–Giles | Hsi yeh4 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Piào shā |
| Wade–Giles | P'iao4 sha1 |
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| Latin Yëziqi | Qaghiliq |
| Yengi Yeziⱪ | K̡aƣilik̡ |
| SASM/GNC | Kargilik |
| Siril Yëziqi | Қағилиқ |
Coordinates: 37°53′6″N 77°24′47″E / 37.88500°N 77.41306°E
Kargilik or Karghalik, or Yecheng in Chinese, is a town in Xinjiang, China. It is 249 km by road northwest to Kashgar, and 249 km south to Mazar. It is the seat of Kargilik (Yecheng) County.
Kargilik/Yecheng is the name of both the oasis and the town, and is situated on the southern rim of the Taklamakan desert is about halfway between Pishan and Yarkand on the southern route around the Tarim Basin. It is about 50 km north of Kokyar, The rich loess terraces of the oasis are watered by the Tiznaf river and several smaller streams. They are joined to the north by a belt of cultivated land stretching about 40 km from the town of Yecheng to the Yarkand River.
During the Han Dynasty it was known as Xiye and also Piaosha or "Drifting Sands". It was noted for producing baicao (白草 literally "white grass") which gave a very poisonous substance used on arrow tips - probably the sap of Aconitium napellus, a plant of the poisonous Aconitum family known in English as monkshood or wolfsbane.
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