Artush
Artush
Artux, Atush | |
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Tomb of Sultan Satuk Bughra Khan | |
| Coordinates (Artush municipal government): 39°42′58″N 76°10′06″E / 39.7162°N 76.1684°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Kizilsu |
| Municipal seat | Guangming Road Subdistrict |
| Area | |
• Total | 15,697.78 km2 (6,060.95 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 290,936 |
| • Density | 19/km2 (48/sq mi) |
| Demographics | |
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| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿图什 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿圖什 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئاتۇش | ||||||||||
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| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | ارتىش Артыш Artysh | ||||||||||
Artush (/ɑːrˈtʊʃ/ ar-TUUSH; also transliterated as Artux or Atush) 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.
Artush is the political, economic and cultural center of Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture.