In its northeast part rises the most powerful construction of the city-citadel-arch, with a height more than 40 meters, with the governor's palace, man-sided bastions, and house temple.
Kanka divides into three parts: citadel, shakhristan (town territory), and rabad (trade and commercial outskirt).
Shakhristan I includes citadel (in the northwestern edge and it has correct square form of quadrangle stretched to the west from the river.
Southwestern and Central tracts of Shakhristan III have been planned very densely with a street net and bazaar squares.
It was described as Kharashet in Arabic sources (etymological meaning is «the city of holly farna»), a second under the economic and cultural center of Shash in Middle Age.
During the archaeological research on the Kanka site, in the ancient settlement was discovered a palace of the ruler, with a house temple of fire in the citadel.
The unique discovered here the remains of monumental lists of temple and type-bull connected with the Manichaean religion.
The residential area, industrial workshops, big monumental caravanserai and bazaar squares were discovered in the period of Shahristan III.