Kashgar

Kashgar
  • قەشقەر شەھرى (Uyghur)
  • 喀什市 (Chinese)
Kashi
Street scene in a renovated part of Kashgar Old City. The renovated homes are reinforced with mud bricks and are of a reddish brown colour.
Kashgar Old City
Skyline of Kashgar
Location of Kashgar (red) within Kashgar Prefecture
Location of Kashgar (red) within Kashgar Prefecture
Kashgar is located in Xinjiang
Kashgar
Kashgar
Location of Kashgar's city center in Xinjiang
Kashgar is located in China
Kashgar
Kashgar
Kashgar (China)
Coordinates (Kashgar municipal government): 39°28′05″N 75°59′38″E / 39.4681°N 75.9938°E / 39.4681; 75.9938
CountryChina
Autonomous regionXinjiang
PrefectureKashgar
Municipal seatÖsteng Boyi Subdistrict
Area
 (2018)[1]
 • County-level city1,056.8 km2 (408.0 sq mi)
 • Urban
130 km2 (50 sq mi)
 • Metro
2,818 km2 (1,088 sq mi)
Elevation
1,270 m (4,170 ft)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • County-level city782,662
 • Density740/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
 • Urban
920,000[1]
Demographics
 • Major ethnic groups
Time zonesUTC+08:00 (CST)
UTC+06:00 (XJT, de facto[3])
Postal code
844000
Area code0998
GDP (Nominal)[4]2019
 – TotalCN¥22.8 billion
US$3.3 billion
 – Per capitaCN¥34,748
US$5,028
 – GrowthIncrease 6.2%
Websitewww.xjks.gov.cn
Kashgar
"Kashgar" in Uyghur Arabic (top) and Chinese characters (bottom)
Uyghur name
Uyghurقەشقەر
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiQeshqer
Yengi YeziⱪⱩǝxⱪǝr
Siril YëziqiҚәшқәр
Uyghur IPA[qæʃqær]
Chinese name
Chinese喀什
Hanyu PinyinKāshí
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinKāshí
Bopomofoㄎㄚ   ㄕˊ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhKashyr
Wade–GilesKʻa1-shih2
Tongyong PinyinKashíh
Yale RomanizationKāshŕ
MPS2Kāshŕ
IPA[kʰá.ʂɻ̩̌]
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese喀什噶尔
Traditional Chinese喀什噶爾
Hanyu PinyinPRC: Kāshígá'ěr
ROC: Kàshígé'ěr
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPRC: Kāshígá'ěr
ROC: Kàshígé'ěr
BopomofoPRC: ㄎㄚ   ㄕˊ   ㄍㄚˊ   ㄦˇ
ROC: ㄎㄚˋ   ㄕˊ   ㄍㄜˊ   ㄦˇ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhPRC: Kashyrgar'eel
ROC: Kahshyrger'eel
Wade–GilesPRC: Kʻa1-shih2-ka2-êrh3
ROC: Kʻa4-shih2-ko2-êrh3
Tongyong PinyinPRC: Kashíhgá'ěr
ROC: Kàshíhgé'ěr
Yale RomanizationPRC: Kāshŕgáěr
ROC: Kàshŕgéěr
MPS2PRC: Kāshŕgáěr
ROC: Kàshŕgéěr
IPAPRC: [kʰá.ʂɻ̩̌.kǎ.àɚ]
ROC: [kʰâ.ʂɻ̩̌.kɤ̌.àɚ]
Historical Chinese name
Chinese疏勒
Hanyu PinyinShūlè
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShūlè
Bopomofoㄕㄨ   ㄌㄜˋ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhShuleh
Wade–GilesShu1-lê4
Tongyong PinyinShulè
Yale RomanizationShūlè
MPS2Shūlè
IPA[ʂú.lɤ̂]
Second historical Chinese name
Chinese疏附
Hanyu PinyinShūfù
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShūfù
Bopomofoㄕㄨ   ㄈㄨˋ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhShufuh
Wade–GilesShu1-fu4
Tongyong PinyinShufù
Yale RomanizationShūfù
MPS2Shūfù
IPA[ʂú.fû]

Kashgar (Uyghur: قەشقەر) or Kashi (Chinese: 喀什) 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 was a strategically important oasis on the Silk Road between China, 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.[5] 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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  2. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  3. ^ "The Working-Calendar for The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government". Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007.
  4. ^ "喀什市概况(2020" (in Chinese). 25 November 2020. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  5. ^ Stanley W. Toops (August 2012). Susan M. Walcott; Corey Johnson (eds.). Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection: From the South China to the Caspian Sea. Routledge. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-1-135-07875-1.