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Kashgar
Xinjiang, China · Asia
About Kashgar
Kashgar sits on the route: 15 minutes from Shule.
Kashgar is in Xinjiang, China, with about 510,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Shule, about 9 km away.
Kashgar (Uyghur: قەشقەر, romanised: Qeshqer), also known as Kashi (Chinese: 喀什; pinyin: Kāshí), is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
For over 2,000 years, Kashgar has been aRead more
strategically important oasis on the Silk Road linking China with Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and has a population of 711,300 people (as of 2019). Kashgar's urban area covers 15 km2 (5.8 sq mi), although its administrative area extends over 555 km2 (214 sq mi).
At the convergence point of widely varying cultures and empires, Kashgar has been under the rule of the Chinese, Turkic, Mongol, and Tibetan empires. The city has also been the site of a number of battles between various groups of people on the steppes.
Now administered as a county-level city, Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture, which has an area of 162,000 km2 (63,000 sq mi) and a population of approximately 4 million as of 2010. Kashgar was declared a Special Economic Zone in 2010; it is the only city in western China with this designation. Kashgar also forms a terminus of the Karakoram Highway, the reconstruction of which is considered a major part of the multibillion-dollar China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.
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The nearest famous roads are Karakoram Highway (China Section, G314).
Where is Kashgar?
Kashgar is in Xinjiang, China, about 9 km from Shule.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 506,640
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Timezone
- Asia/Urumqi
- Coordinates
- 39.4672, 75.9868
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