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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.
Map including Kashgar and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1966) [a] From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Kashgar Prefecture area ( DMA , 1980) [ b ] Map including Kashgar Prefecture area (northwest) ( DMA , 1984) [ c ]
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected many communities of Eurasia by land and sea, stretching from the Mediterranean basin in the west to the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago in the east.
Map of Kashgar (labeled as SU-FU (KASHGAR)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (1966) [Note 3] Map including Kashgar (labeled as Kashi K'a-shih (Kashgar)) (DMA, 1983) Kashgar was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and has about 25 million inhabitants. [1] [13] Xinjiang borders the countries of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
Historical maps of the China-Kirghiz SSR border from north to south (west to east) from the International Map of the World and Operational Navigation Chart, middle & late 20th century: Map of the border (near Kashgar ) including the tripoint with Tajikistan ( International Map of the World , AMS , 1966) [ a ]
It is probably the world's tallest natural arch. Though long familiar to locals (the south side of the arch is visible from the plain below) it was famously discovered in 1947 by English mountaineer Eric Shipton during his tenure as the British consul in Kashgar – and made known to the West in his book Mountains of Tartary. Shipton made ...
In 1928, Makit County was created as part of Kashgar Circuit (喀什噶爾道). [18] In 2002, 240 Tajik (China) households displaced from Taxkorgan reclaimed a desert village in the county. [19] In early 2011, a Uyghur butcher in Makit County and six friends were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute. [20]