Uqturpan County

Legend says that a local rebel leader was married to Iparhan, known as the "Fragrant Concubine" a descendant of Apaq Khoja.

[16] It was said that Ush Muslims had long wanted to sleep on [Sucheng and son's] hides and eat their flesh.

[20] In a 2012 article from Radio Free Asia, it was reported that according to family sources and local authorities, Islam Urayim, then 32, a native of Uqturpan County who had been deported to China on December 19, 2009, despite seeking asylum in Cambodia, had been sentenced to life in prison.

[5] According to a 2020 Radio Free Asia report, it was estimated by local officials that 20,000 Uyghurs were detained in the three re-education camps in the county.

[24] The highest point in Uqturpan County is Zhatekelie Feng (扎特克列峰) at 5,135 m (16,847 ft) above sea level.

[38] Uqturpan County's economy is primarily based on agriculture and animal husbandry, producing wheat, rice, corn, cotton, sesame (胡麻), rapeseed, and pelts.

Uqturpan (c. 1759)
Uqturpan delegates (bottom group, flag "乌什") in Peking in 1761. 万国来朝图
Khojis (−1781), a Uyghur governor of Us-Turfan . Painting by Ignatius Sichelbart , a European Jesuit artist at the Chinese court in 1775. [ 21 ]