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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.
As of 1999, 89.37% of the population of Kashgar (Kasi) Prefecture was Uyghur and 9.1% of the population was Han Chinese. [34] In 1997, the population of Kashgar Prefecture was 3,145,000 with Uyghurs making up 89.4% of the total. [20] As of 1983–4, Kashgar Prefecture had 6,180 mosques. In the mid-1980's, there were two million Uyghurs in ...
In 453 Kashgar sent envoys to present tribute (Weishu, ch. 5), and again in 455. An embassy sent during the reign of Wencheng Di (452–466) from the king of Kashgar presented a supposed sacred relic of the Buddha; a dress which was incombustible. In 507 Kashgar, is said to have sent envoys in both the 9th and 10th months (Weishu, ch. 8).
Kashi Laining International Airport [5] [6] (IATA: KHG, ICAO: ZWSH), formerly Kashgar Airport [a] until August 2023, [7] is a dual-use military-civilian airport serving Kashgar (Kashi), [2] [7] [8] a city in Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.
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. The county is the only Tajik (Pamiri) autonomous county in China. [1]
As it was on the Northern Silk Road, Shule traded mostly through the Yumen Pass [18] and the Pamir Mountains. [19]The capital of the Shule Kingdom, Kashgar, is marked. The Northern Silk Road that passed through Kashgar split off into the northern Tarim Basin route which ran from Kashgar over Aksu, Kucha, Korla, through the Iron Gate Pass, over Karasahr, Jiaohe, Turpan, Gaochang and Kumul to Anxi.
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]
The 24-hectare (59-acre) park is one of the largest in Kashgar. [1] Located in the center of Kashgar, south of the People's Square, People's Park is one of the main recreational places in the city. It has more than 26,000 trees [dubious – discuss] of more than 50 species, and 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) of trails.