Kashgar or Kashi (Uyghur: قەشقەر, K̡ǝxk̡ǝr, Chinese: 喀什 pinyin: Kāshí, Persian: کاشغر) is an oasis city with approximately 350,000 residents in the western part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 km² and a population of approximately 3.5 million.
The city covers an area of 15 km². The altitude averages 1,289.5 m/4,282 ...
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Kashgar or Kashi (Uyghur: قەشقەر, K̡ǝxk̡ǝr, Chinese: 喀什 pinyin: Kāshí, Persian: کاشغر) is an oasis city with approximately 350,000 residents in the western part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 km² and a population of approximately 3.5 million.
The city covers an area of 15 km². The altitude averages 1,289.5 m/4,282 ft. above sea level. The annual mean temperature is 11.7°C, with a low of -24.4° in January and up to 40.1° in July. The frost-free period averages 215 days.
Kashgar is said to mean “variegated houses”.
The modern Chinese name is 喀什 (Kāshí), a shortened form of the longer and less-frequently used 喀什噶爾 (Kāshígé’ěr). Ptolemy (90-168 CE), in his Geography, Chapter 15.3A, refers to Kashgar as “Kasia”.
An early Chinese name was 疏勒 (now Shule County), variously romanized as Su-leh, Sulei, Shule, Shu-le', She-le, Shu-lo or Sha-le, which perhaps...
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