Karghilik

Kargilik or Yecheng is a town in , China. It is to the southeast of , at a distance of 249 km by road and is north of Mazar by 249 km. It is the seat of Kargilik County.
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  • City with about 140,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,340 metres (4,390 feet)
  • Description: city in the Kashgar prefecture
  • Also known as
    “Ha-erh-ka-li-k’o”
    “K’a-ko-li-ko”
    “K’o-erh-ka-li-k’o”
    “Kageleke”
    “Kageleke Zhen”
    “Kargalik”
    “Kargalyk”
    “Karghalik”
    “Kargilik”
    “Kargilik Town”
    “Kerghalyk”
    “Khargalik”
    “Qaghiliq”
    “Qarghalig”
    “Qarghalik”
    “Qarghaliq”
    “Qarghlig”
    “Qarkhalik”
    “Yechen”
    “Yecheng”
    “Yeh-ch’eng”
    “Yeh-ch’eng-chen”
    “Yeh-ch’eng-hsien”
    “Yeh-ch’ieng”
    “叶城县 قاغىلىق”
    “喀格勒克”
  • Categories
    town of China
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude
37.8876° or 37° 53′ 15″ north
Longitude
77.4163° or 77° 24′ 59″ east
Open location code
8J9VVCQ8+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082254
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1279602
Wiki­data ID
Q2637427

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Karghilik” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Yecheng”
  • Chinese: “叶城”
  • Chinese: “叶城县”
  • Chinese: “喀格勒克”
  • Chinese: “喀格勒克镇”
  • Dutch: “Yecheng”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يايتشينج”
  • French: “Kargilik”
  • Gan Chinese: “喀格勒克镇”
  • German: “Kargilik”
  • Hungarian: “Kargilik”
  • Indonesian: “Karghalik”
  • Italian: “Yecheng”
  • Japanese: “カルギリク”
  • Japanese: “カルギリク県”
  • Japanese: “カルギリク鎮”
  • Korean: “카길리크현”
  • Lithuanian: “Kargalykas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chokkuka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karghalik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karghilik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yecheng”
  • Norwegian: “Yecheng”
  • Persian: “شهرک کارگیلیک”
  • Russian: “Каргалык”
  • Spanish: “Kargilik”
  • Uighur: “K̩aƣilik̩”
  • Uighur: “Qaghiliq Baziri”
  • Uighur: “Qaghiliq”
  • Uighur: “Қағилық”
  • Uighur: “قاغىلىق بازىرى”
  • Uighur: “قاغىلىق”
  • Ukrainian: “Каргалик”
  • Vietnamese: “Kargilik”
  • Welsh: “Yecheng”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀格勒克镇”
  • Yue Chinese: “葉城”

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