Yengisar County
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The Yéngisar County(Chinese: 英吉沙县, Yingjisha Xian) is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It contains an area of 3,373 sq km. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 230,000.
The county seat is the city of Yéngisar (Yangihissar).
[edit] Wildlife
The city of Yangihissar gave its name to a lizard species, Yangihissar gecko (Cyrtopodion elongatus), which occurs throughout Eastern China.[1]