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County-level city in Xinjiang, China
Kashgar
قەشقەر شەھرى(Uyghur)
喀什市(Chinese)
Kashi
County-level city
Afaq Khoja Mausoleum
Kashgar Old City
Id Kah Mosque
Skyline of Kashgar
Location of Kashgar (red) within Kashgar Prefecture
"Kashgar" in Uyghur Arabic (top) and Chinese characters (bottom)
Uyghur name
Uyghur
قەشقەر
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi
Qeshqer
Yengi Yeziⱪ
Ⱪǝxⱪǝr
Siril Yëziqi
Қәшқәр
Uyghur IPA
[qæʃqær]
Chinese name
Chinese
喀什
Hanyu Pinyin
Kāshí
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Kāshí
Bopomofo
ㄎㄚ ㄕˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Kashyr
Wade–Giles
Kʻa1-shih2
Tongyong Pinyin
Kashíh
Yale Romanization
Kāshŕ
MPS2
Kāshŕ
IPA
[kʰá.ʂɻ̩̌]
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
喀什噶尔
Traditional Chinese
喀什噶爾
Hanyu Pinyin
PRC: Kāshígá'ěr ROC: Kàshígé'ěr
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
PRC: Kāshígá'ěr ROC: Kàshígé'ěr
Bopomofo
PRC: ㄎㄚ ㄕˊ ㄍㄚˊ ㄦˇ ROC: ㄎㄚˋ ㄕˊ ㄍㄜˊ ㄦˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
PRC: Kashyrgar'eel ROC: Kahshyrger'eel
Wade–Giles
PRC: Kʻa1-shih2-ka2-êrh3 ROC: Kʻa4-shih2-ko2-êrh3
Tongyong Pinyin
PRC: Kashíhgá'ěr ROC: Kàshíhgé'ěr
Yale Romanization
PRC: Kāshŕgáěr ROC: Kàshŕgéěr
MPS2
PRC: Kāshŕgáěr ROC: Kàshŕgéěr
IPA
PRC:[kʰá.ʂɻ̩̌.kǎ.àɚ] ROC:[kʰâ.ʂɻ̩̌.kɤ̌.àɚ]
Historical Chinese name
Chinese
疏勒
Hanyu Pinyin
Shūlè
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shūlè
Bopomofo
ㄕㄨ ㄌㄜˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Shuleh
Wade–Giles
Shu1-lê4
Tongyong Pinyin
Shulè
Yale Romanization
Shūlè
MPS2
Shūlè
IPA
[ʂú.lɤ̂]
Second historical Chinese name
Chinese
疏附
Hanyu Pinyin
Shūfù
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shūfù
Bopomofo
ㄕㄨ ㄈㄨˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Shufuh
Wade–Giles
Shu1-fu4
Tongyong Pinyin
Shufù
Yale Romanization
Shūfù
MPS2
Shūfù
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[update]). 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[update].[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.
^ abCox, W (2018). Demographia World Urban Areas. 14th Annual Edition(PDF). St. Louis: Demographia. p. 22. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
^Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
^"The Working-Calendar for The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government". Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007.
^"喀什市概况（2020" (in Chinese). 25 November 2020. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^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.
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