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Tajik women on the Karakoram Highway from Tashkurgan to Khunjerab Pass. The population of Tajiks in Xinjiang numbered 41,028 in 2000 and 50,265 in 2015. [1] Sixty percent of the Tajik population reside in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County. As of 2016, more than 4,000 Tajiks lived in nearby Poskam County (Zepu).
China is among the three largest trade partners of Tajikistan. [2] A number of large Chinese enterprises in various industries operate in Tajikistan. [citation needed] In 2012, Tajikistan obtained China's promise to provide it with nearly US$1 billion in the form of grants, technical assistance and credits on preferential terms. [3]
A point north of the Markansu River (瑪爾坎蘇河) on the China–Tajikistan border is the westernmost point of China.The border's southern terminus is found at the Afghanistan-China-Tajikistan tripoint on Povalo-Shveikovskogo Peak [14] [15] (Chinese: 波万洛什维科夫斯基峰 [16]; pinyin: Bōwànluò Shíwéikēfūsījī Fēng) / Kokrash Kol Peak (Kekelaqukaole Peak; Chinese ...
Chinese Tajik women on the Karakoram Highway from Tashkurgan to Khunjerab Pass. The population of Chinese Tajiks in Xinjiang numbered 41,028 in 2000 and 50,265 in 2015. [1] Sixty percent of the Chinese Tajik population reside in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County. As of 2016, more than 4,000 Chinese Tajiks lived in nearby Poskam County (Zepu).
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County [5] [6] [7] (often shortened to Tashkurgan County and officially spelled Taxkorgan) is an autonomous county of Kashgar Prefecture, in western Xinjiang, China. The county seat is Tashkurgan .
Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک، تاجک, romanized: Tājīk, Tājek; Tajik: Тоҷик, romanized: Tojik) is the name of various Persian-speaking [16] Eastern Iranian groups of people native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Tashkurgan, [a] historically known as Sarikol and Shitoucheng, is a town in the far west of China, close to the country's border with Tajikistan.It is seat of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
In 2011, Tajikistan ratified a 1999 treaty to cede 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) of land in the Pamir Mountains to the People's Republic of China (PRC), from the Chinese state perspective ending a 130-year-old border dispute and China's claims to over 28,000 km 2 (11,000 sq mi) of Tajik territory. [28]