Artush
ئاتۇش شەھىرى 阿图什市 Artux, Atush | |
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Tomb of Sultan Satuk Bughra Khan | |
Coordinates (Artux municipal government): 39°42′58″N 76°10′06″E / 39.7162°N 76.1684°ECoordinates: 39°42′58″N 76°10′06″E / 39.7162°N 76.1684°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
Autonomous prefecture | Kizilsu (Kirghiz) |
Area | |
• Total | 15,697.78 km2 (6,060.95 sq mi) |
Population (2015)[2] | |
• Total | 269,317 |
• Density | 17/km2 (44/sq mi) |
Ethnic groups | |
• Major ethnic groups | Uyghur[3] |
Website | www |
Artux | |||||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur | ئاتۇش | ||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 阿圖什 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阿图什 | ||||||||||
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Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
Kyrgyz | ارتىش Артыш Artysh |
Artux,[4] Artush[5][6] (Uyghur: ئاتۇش شەھىرى; Kyrgyz: ارتىش, Артыш, Artysh), and officially rendered as Atush (Chinese: 阿图什市; pinyin: Ātúshí Shì),[7] is a county-level city and the capital of the Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture of Kizilsu in Xinjiang, China. The government seat is in Guangminglu Subdistrict (光明路街道).[8]
In January 1943, Artux County was established.[1][9]
In June 1986, Artux County became Artux City.[1][9]
In 2018, the dome of Eshtachi Mosque (39°41′33.46″N 76°7′25.88″E / 39.6926278°N 76.1238556°E) was removed.[5][6] In recent times other mosques have been taken down too.
The Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center in Artux is one of the Xinjiang re-education camps.[10]
At 10:23 pm on January 19, 2020, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Artux.[4]
It is situated in the northwest part of the Tarim Basin, south of the Tien Shan mountains. Like most of Xinjiang, Artux has a cool arid climate (Köppen BWk) with hot summers, freezing winters and little precipitation and low humidity year-round. The annual mean temperature is 13.1 °C (55.6 °F) and the annual mean precipitation around 95 millimetres or 3.74 inches. Most of this limited precipitation falls from erratic thunderstorms in the summer months, although at this time relative humidity averages less than 35 percent.
Climate data for Artux (1981–2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 19.0 (66.2) |
18.6 (65.5) |
28.4 (83.1) |
34.9 (94.8) |
36.0 (96.8) |
39.5 (103.1) |
41.0 (105.8) |
41.8 (107.2) |
37.0 (98.6) |
30.9 (87.6) |
25.1 (77.2) |
18.9 (66.0) |
41.8 (107.2) |
Average high °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) |
6.0 (42.8) |
14.4 (57.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
27.6 (81.7) |
31.5 (88.7) |
33.5 (92.3) |
32.5 (90.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
20.2 (68.4) |
10.8 (51.4) |
2.0 (35.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.7 (23.5) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
9.0 (48.2) |
16.7 (62.1) |
21.5 (70.7) |
25.3 (77.5) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.2 (79.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
13.8 (56.8) |
4.9 (40.8) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
Average low °C (°F) | −8.8 (16.2) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
3.8 (38.8) |
10.9 (51.6) |
15.6 (60.1) |
19.1 (66.4) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.0 (68.0) |
15.1 (59.2) |
7.7 (45.9) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
7.8 (46.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −20.5 (−4.9) |
−20.7 (−5.3) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
4.1 (39.4) |
8.1 (46.6) |
11.4 (52.5) |
11.5 (52.7) |
6.5 (43.7) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−19.9 (−3.8) |
−20.7 (−5.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.7 (0.11) |
4.9 (0.19) |
8.6 (0.34) |
6.4 (0.25) |
13.0 (0.51) |
12.3 (0.48) |
13.6 (0.54) |
13.5 (0.53) |
10.2 (0.40) |
6.7 (0.26) |
2.5 (0.10) |
2.4 (0.09) |
96.8 (3.8) |
Average relative humidity (%) | 62 | 50 | 38 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 35 | 38 | 42 | 52 | 64 | 42 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[11] |
Artux includes three subdistricts, one town, six townships and one other area:[12][1][13]
Subdistricts (يولى كوچا باشقارمىسى / 街道):
Town (بازىرى / 镇):
Townships (يېزىسى / 乡):
Other areas:
The city had two subdistricts, five townships and three farms under its jurisdiction in 2018.
Artux's economy is primarily agriculture, the agricultural products are mainly cotton, grapes, and sheep.
Industries in Artux include salt-making, cotton-ginning, food processing and cooking oil processing. Agricultural products include wheat, corn, sorghum, sesame, rice and others, and the local specialty is the common fig. Sheep are the main livestock in Artux.[9]
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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2000 | 200,345 | — |
2010 | 240,368 | +1.84% |
2015 | 269,317 | +2.30% |
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As of 1997[update], 81.5% of the population of Artux was Uyghur.[3]
As of 1999[update], 79.68% of the population of Artux was Uyghur and 7.21% of the population was Han Chinese.[17]
As of 2015[update], 216,651 (80.44%) of the 269,317 residents of Artux were Uyghur, 30,174 (11.20%) were Kyrgyz, 21,754 (8.08%) were Han Chinese and 738 were from other ethnic groups.[2]
Artux is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway.[9]
Historical English-language maps including Artux: