Yarkand, the capital or chief city of Eastern Turkestan, 100 m. SE. of Kashgar; is in the centre of a very fertile district of the vast continental basin of Central Asia, abounding also in large stores of mineral wealth; it is a great emporium of trade, and the inhabitants are mostly Mohammedans.
Population (circa 1900) given as 60,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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