Which city does Yecheng County in Xinjiang belong to?

Yecheng County belongs to Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Yecheng County is the abbreviation of Yeerqiang, and the county seat is named after the Yeerqiang River. Yeerqiang is a Turkic language, which is interpreted as "vast land" and "city on the cliff" according to the waterway of the western regions, and there is a saying of "hospitality here" in the local area.

Yecheng County is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, more than 500 kilometers away from the capital Urumqi/KLOC-0 and 260 kilometers away from Kashgar. It is bordered by Karakorum Mountain and Kunlun Mountain in the south, open plains, Taklimakan Desert and the upper reaches of the Yarkant River in the north. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north. The total area of Yecheng County is 3 1 1,000 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 1 1,654,38+0,300 mu.