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Kashgar Prefecture

Kashgar Prefecture, also known as Kashi Prefecture, is a prefecture located in southwestern , China, located in the region. It has an area of 112,057 km.
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  • Type: Region with 4,500,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level division of the People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “K’a-shih Chuan-ch’ü”, “K’a-shih Ti-ch’ü”, “K’o-shih Chuan-ch’u”, “Kashgar”, “Kashi”, “Kashi Prefecture”, and “Shule”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Id Kah Mosque and Renmin Park.

Mosque
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a in , in the autonomous region of . With the capacity of 20,000 worshipers inside the mosque and its sahn, it is the largest mosque in China.

Park
Photo: Nickckb20, Public domain.
People's Park is an urban public park in the city of in Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China. The 24-hectare park is one of the largest in Kashgar.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.
The Afaq Khoja Mausoleum is a mausoleum in , ; it is the holiest Muslim site in the region. It is located some 5 km northeast from the centre of , in Haohan Village, which is also known as Yaghdu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kashgar.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is in the extreme west of and the southwest extreme of . The city has been an important trading centre since the days of the Silk Road, and still is today; it is said to have the largest bazaar in Asia.

Kashgar Prefecture

Latitude
39.4703° or 39° 28′ 13″ north
Longitude
75.9875° or 75° 59′ 15″ east
Population
4,500,000
Elevation
1,218 metres (3,996 feet)
Open location code
8JFQFXCP+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 471883665
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1280848
Wiki­data ID
Q739890
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kashgar Prefecture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاشغر”
  • Arabic: “ولاية كاشغر”
  • Basque: “Kashgar prefektura”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Kaixgar”
  • Cebuano: “Kashi Diqu”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کشگار”
  • Chinese: “Kashgar Tē-khu”
  • Chinese: “Kāshí Dìqū”
  • Chinese: “喀什”
  • Chinese: “喀什地区”
  • Chinese: “喀什地區”
  • Czech: “Kašgar (prefektura)”
  • Czech: “Kašgar”
  • Danish: “Kashgar”
  • Dutch: “Kashgar Prefecture”
  • Dutch: “Kaxgar”
  • Estonian: “Kaxgari ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Kašgarin prefektuuri”
  • French: “Kachgar”
  • French: “préfecture de Kachgar”
  • French: “Préfecture de Kachgar”
  • Gan Chinese: “喀什地区”
  • German: “Kaschgar”
  • German: “Kaxgar (Regierungsbezirk)”
  • German: “Kaxgar”
  • Greek: “Νομός Κασγκάρ”
  • Hebrew: “נציבות קאשגאר”
  • Hebrew: “קאשגאר (נציבות)”
  • Hebrew: “קאשגאר”
  • Hindi: “काश्गर विभाग”
  • Hindi: “काश्गर”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Kashgar”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Kashgar”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Kashgar”
  • Japanese: “カシュガル地区”
  • Korean: “카슈가르 지구”
  • Latvian: “Kašgaras prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašgaro prefektūra”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kashgar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kashgar Tē-khu”
  • Mongolian: “Кашгар тойрог”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kashgar”
  • Norwegian: “Kashgar”
  • Ossetian: “Кашгар (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Кашгар”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کاشغر”
  • Persian: “ولایت کاشغر”
  • Polish: “Kaszgar (prefektura)”
  • Polish: “Kaszgar”
  • Portuguese: “Casgar”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Kashgar”
  • Russian: “Кашгар”
  • Russian: “округ Кашгар”
  • Slovak: “Kašgar”
  • Slovenian: “prefektura Kašgar”
  • Spanish: “Kasgar”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Kasgar”
  • Swedish: “Kashgar, Xinjiang”
  • Swedish: “Kashgar”
  • Tajik: “Ҳавзаи Қошғар”
  • Tatar: “Кашгар бүлгесе”
  • Tatar: “Кашгар округы”
  • Turkish: “Kaşgar İli”
  • Turkish: “Kaşgar”
  • Uighur: “Kashgar Diqu”
  • Uighur: “Kashgar”
  • Uighur: “Kaxgar Diqu”
  • Uighur: “Kaxgar”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer Wilayiti”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer”
  • Uighur: “قەشقەر ۋىلايىتى”
  • Uighur: “قەشقەر”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашґар округ”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашгар”
  • Urdu: “کاشغر پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Kashgar”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاشغر پریفیکچر”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀什地区”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀什地區”

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