Artux

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Artux

Total population

285,000

Coordinates39.72°, 76.17°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Artush is a county-level city and the capital of Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China. The government seat is in Guangming Road Subdistrict. As of 2018, it has a population of 285,507 people, 81.4 per cent of whom are Uyghurs.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Ilham Tohti

Uyghur economist and Human Rights activist

Sabit Damolla

First Prime Minister of the Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkistan, Uyghur statesman, politician,philosopher, scholar, and religious leader (1883–1934)

Anwar Yusuf Turani

Uyghur nationalist

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Memet Ali

footballer

J

Jërullah Hesamidin

Chinese Uyghur politician

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Abbas Borhan

Chinese Uyghur biologist, academic writer

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Nizamdin Ependi

association football player

Ghulam Osman Yaghma

uyghur political refugee (born 1956)

Salih Hudayar

uyghur independence leader (born 1993)

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Nijat Sultan

Chinese politician

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Perhat Tursun

Uyghur writer and poet

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Ablet Semet

P

Pazilaiti Simayijiang

Finnish human rights activist and feminist

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Gulayim Matili

Kyrgyz poet and writer in China (1942-)

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Qeyser Mijit

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Xinjiang

• Suntagh
  2.3 mi away
• Beshkerem
  10.9 mi away
• Aqqash
  17.9 mi away
• Yengi'osteng
  19.1 mi away
• Ustun Artush
  19.4 mi away
• Kashgar
  19.6 mi away · pop. 660,000
• Semen
  20.2 mi away
• Tügürmiti
  20.7 mi away
• Shamalbagh
  21 mi away
• Shule
  22.8 mi away · pop. 355,544
• Shufu
  28.7 mi away · pop. 44,053
• Baghchi
  28.8 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Artux

Search results from Open Library.