Artux
Artux or Artush 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. History

In January 1943, Artux County was established. In June 1986, Artux County became Artux City. In 2018, the dome of Eshtachi Mosque () was removed. In recent times other mosques have been taken down too. The Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center in Artux is one of the Xinjiang re-education camps. At 10:23 pm on January 19, 2020, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Artux. Geography and climate
It is situated in the northwest part of the Tarim Basin, south of the Tien Shan mountains. Like most of Xinjiang, Artux has a cool arid climate (Köppen BWk) with hot summers, freezing winters and little precipitation and low humidity year-round. The annual mean temperature is  and the annual mean precipitation around  . Most of this limited precipitation falls from erratic thunderstorms in the summer months, although at this time relative humidity averages less than 35 percent. Administrative divisions
Artux includes three subdistricts, one town, six townships and one other area:

Other:
 Red Flag Farm of 3rd Division, XPCC (兵团农三师红旗农场)

Economy
Artux's economy is primarily agriculture, the agricultural products are mainly cotton, grapes, and sheep. Industries in Artux include salt-making, cotton-ginning, food processing and cooking oil processing. Agricultural products include wheat, corn, sorghum, sesame, rice and others, and the local specialty is the common fig. Sheep are the main livestock in Artux. Demographics

, 81.5% of the population of Artux was Uyghur. , 79.68 per cent of the population of Artux were Uyghur and 7.21 per cent of the population were Han Chinese. , 216,651 (80.44%) of the 269,317 residents of Artux were Uyghurs, 30,174 (11.20%) were Kyrgyz, 21,754 (8.08%) were Han Chinese and 738 were from other ethnic groups. , the population of Artux was 285,507. Transportation
Artux is served by the Southern Xinjiang Railway. Notable people
 Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan
 Sabit Damolla, Prime Minister of the First East Turkistan Republic
 Saifuddin Azizi, first Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
 Ghulam Osman Yaghma, third President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile
 Anwar Yusuf Turani
 Ilham Tohti
 Salih Hudayar

Historical maps
Historical English-language maps including Artux:

Notes

References

Populated places in Xinjiang
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture