The county seat is the city of Yengisar, a town that is best known among the local Uyghurs for its handmade knives. The finely-tuned skill of knife making used to be passed down among generations in Yengisar,[13] but is slowly dying due to China's strict response to deadly clashes in the Xinjiang region.[14]
In September 2017, Horigul Nasir, then 21, was jailed for ten years for allegedly promoting the wearing of head scarves. Her brother Yusupjan Nasir was subsequently demoted from his position as an assistant officer of the Saghan township police office to a security guard at the township's Family Planning Department.[21]
^英吉沙简介. 英吉沙县总面积3425平方公里,辖2镇12乡,耕地面积38.03万亩,有维吾尔、汉、回、乌孜别克、柯尔克孜、哈萨克等,总人口28.4万人(2013年)。. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
^ abcd英吉沙县历史沿革. XZQH.org. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2020. 2000年第五次人口普查,英吉沙县常住总人口213338人,{...}2003年,英吉沙县总面积3420.9平方千米,{...}2010年第六次人口普查,英吉沙县常住总人口262067人,其中:城镇31113人,城关乡13058人,乔勒潘乡11848人,龙甫乡6882人,芒辛乡25746人,色提力乡10424人,萨罕乡30029人,英也尔乡12593人,克孜勒乡24772人,托普鲁克乡13860人,苏盖提乡23280人,乌恰乡42385人,艾古斯乡9371人,依格孜也尔乡5114人,兵团东风农场1592人。
^1997年英吉沙县行政区划. XZQH.org (in Simplified Chinese). 19 November 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2020. 面积4306.5平方千米,人口20.5万,有维吾尔、汉、柯尔克孜、乌孜别克、塔吉克、哈萨克、蒙古等民族,其中维吾尔族占98%,
^yan, ed. (13 April 2019). "Across China: 1,000-year-old folk craft preserved in Xinjiang". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020. As a staff member of the culture center in Yengisar County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urziashim performs traditional cloth stamping, a 1,000-year-old Chinese intangible cultural heritage.
^huaxia, ed. (30 December 2019). "Dawazi performers: chasing dreams on a tightrope". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on December 30, 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020. Located in Yingjisha County of Xinjiang, Adili Dawazi Art Heritage Center was founded by Adili Hoshur, a sixth generation Dawazi practitioner known as the "tightrope walking prince". The center currently has 22 members, with the youngest being just 11 years old.
^2019年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码:英吉沙县 (in Simplified Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020. 统计用区划代码 名称 653123100000 英吉沙镇 653123101000 乌恰镇 653123102000 芒辛镇 653123103000 萨罕镇 653123200000 城关乡 653123201000 乔勒潘乡 653123202000 龙甫乡 653123204000 色提力乡 653123206000 英也尔乡 653123207000 克孜勒乡 653123208000 托普鲁克乡 653123209000 苏盖提乡 653123211000 艾古斯乡 653123212000 依格孜也尔乡 653123401000 英吉沙工业园区 653123500000 兵团东风农场
^行政区域. 英吉沙县人民政府门户网站. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2020. 英吉沙县辖2个镇、12个乡。英吉沙镇、乌恰镇、城关乡、乔勒潘乡、龙甫乡、芒辛镇、色提力乡、萨罕乡、英也尔乡、克孜勒乡、托普鲁克乡、苏盖提乡、艾古斯乡、依格孜也尔乡。
^Zhao Ruixue, Mao Weihua (13 July 2017). "Textile park tackles poverty in Kashgar". China Daily. Retrieved 9 April 2020. In the seventh village of Mangxin town in Yengisar county, a stage which was used by residents for dancing is now also used as a place to lock-stitch carpets.
^3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数 (in Simplified Chinese). شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى新疆维吾尔自治区统计局 Statistic Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 15 March 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.