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Kashgar Prefecture

Kashgar

Kashgar 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.
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  • Type: City with 660,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
  • Also known as: “City of Kashgar”, “K’a-shih”, “K’o-shih”, “Kachgar”, “Kashgar City”, “Kashgar Kona Shahr”, “Kashgar Kone Shahr”, “Kashghar”, “Kashi”, “Kashi Shi”, “Kona Shahr”, “Qeshqer”, “Shu-fu”, “Shule”, “Su-fu”, and “Su-lo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Id Kah Mosque and Renmin Park.

Mosque
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a in Kashgar, 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 Kashgar in Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China. The 24-hectare park is one of the largest in Kashgar.

Kashgar

Latitude
39.4666° or 39° 27′ 60″ north
Longitude
75.99° or 75° 59′ 24″ east
Population
660,000
Elevation
1,284 metres (4,213 feet)
IATA airport code
KHG
United Nations Location Code
CN KSS
Open location code
8JFQFX8R+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1280849
Wiki­data ID
Q170521
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kashgar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kash”
  • Arabic: “كاشغر”
  • Armenian: “Կաշգար”
  • Asturian: “Kashgar”
  • Awadhi: “काशगर”
  • Awadhi: “काश्गर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaşğər”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaşkar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaşqar”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡашғар”
  • Basque: “Kashgar”
  • Belarusian: “Кашгар”
  • Bengali: “قەشقەر”
  • Bengali: “کاشغر”
  • Bengali: “কাশগড়”
  • Bengali: “কাশগর”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашгар”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашгария”
  • Bulgarian: “Каши”
  • Catalan: “Kaixgar”
  • Catalan: “Kasghar”
  • Catalan: “Kashgar”
  • Catalan: “Kashgària”
  • Catalan: “Kashghar”
  • Catalan: “Kashghària”
  • Catalan: “Khasgar”
  • Catalan: “Khasghar”
  • Catalan: “Khashgar”
  • Catalan: “Shu-le”
  • Catalan: “Xou-lo”
  • Cebuano: “Kashi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Kashi”
  • Chinese: “Kashgar-chhī”
  • Chinese: “kāshí shì”
  • Chinese: “喀什”
  • Chinese: “喀什噶尔”
  • Chinese: “喀什噶爾”
  • Chinese: “喀什市”
  • Chinese: “疏勒”
  • Czech: “Kašgar”
  • Danish: “Kashgar”
  • Dutch: “Kashgar”
  • Dutch: “Kashgarie”
  • Dutch: “Kashi”
  • Dutch: “Kasjgar”
  • Dutch: “Qashgar”
  • Dutch: “Qashqar”
  • Dutch: “Sjoe-foe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاشجر”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝgar”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝgaro”
  • Esperanto: “Kashgar”
  • Estonian: “Kaxgar”
  • Finnish: “Kašgar”
  • Finnish: “Kashgar”
  • French: “Kachgar”
  • French: “Kachi”
  • French: “Kashgar”
  • French: “Kashi”
  • French: “Qachi”
  • Gan Chinese: “喀什市”
  • Georgian: “ქაშგარი”
  • German: “Kaschgar”
  • German: “Kashgar”
  • German: “Kaxgar”
  • Greek: “Κασγκάρ”
  • Greek: “Κάσγκαρ”
  • Gujarati: “કશ્ગર”
  • Hebrew: “קאשגאר”
  • Hindi: “कशगार”
  • Hindi: “काशगुर”
  • Hindi: “काश्गर शहर”
  • Hindi: “काश्गर”
  • Hungarian: “Kasgar”
  • Indonesian: “Kashgar”
  • Irish: “Cathair Kashgar”
  • Italian: “Kashgar”
  • Italian: “Kashghar”
  • Italian: “Kashi”
  • Japanese: “カシュガル”
  • Japanese: “カシュガル市”
  • Japanese: “喀什市”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಶ್ಗರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Қашғар”
  • Kazakh: “Қашғария”
  • Kazakh: “Қашқар”
  • Kazakh: “Қашқария”
  • Kikuyu: “Kashgar”
  • Kirghiz: “Кашкар”
  • Korean: “카쉬가르”
  • Korean: “카슈가르”
  • Korean: “카슈가르시”
  • Korean: “카스 시”
  • Korean: “카스시”
  • Ladino: “Kashgar”
  • Lao: “ຄາສກາ”
  • Latin: “Casgarium”
  • Latvian: “Kašgara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašgaras”
  • Malagasy: “Kashgar”
  • Malay: “Kashgar”
  • Marathi: “काशी”
  • Marathi: “काश्गर”
  • Mazanderani: “کاشغر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kashgar-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Кашгар”
  • Nepali: “काशगर”
  • Nepali: “काश्गर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kashgar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kashgharia”
  • Norwegian: “Kashgar”
  • Oriya: “କାଶଗର”
  • Ossetian: “Кашгар”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਸ਼ਗ਼ਾਰ”
  • Persian: “کاشغر”
  • Polish: “Kashi”
  • Polish: “Kaszgar”
  • Portuguese: “Casgar”
  • Portuguese: “Kashgar”
  • Pushto: “کاشغر”
  • Romanian: “Kashgar”
  • Romanian: “Kaxgar”
  • Russian: “Кашгар”
  • Russian: “Кашгария”
  • Sanskrit: “श्रीक्रीराति”
  • Scots: “Kashgar”
  • Serbian: “Кашгар”
  • Sinhala: “කාශ්ගර්”
  • Slovak: “Kašgar”
  • Slovenian: “Kašgar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاشقار”
  • Spanish: “Kachgar”
  • Spanish: “Kasgar”
  • Spanish: “Kashgar”
  • Spanish: “Kyachgar”
  • Swedish: “Kaschgar”
  • Swedish: “Kasghar”
  • Swedish: “Kashgar”
  • Swedish: “Kashghar”
  • Swedish: “Kashi”
  • Swedish: “Kasjgar”
  • Swedish: “Kaxgar”
  • Swiss German: “Kaschgar”
  • Tagalog: “Kashgar”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳристони Қошғар”
  • Tamil: “கஷ்கர்”
  • Tatar: “Кашгар”
  • Telugu: “కషుగర్”
  • Thai: “แกชแกร์”
  • Thai: “คัชการ์”
  • Thai: “คาฉือ”
  • Thai: “คาสการ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kaxgar”
  • Turkish: “Kaşgar”
  • Turkish: “Kaşgâr”
  • Turkish: “Kâşgar”
  • Uighur: “Kashgar”
  • Uighur: “K̩əxk̩ər”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer Shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer shehri”
  • Uighur: “Qeshqer”
  • Uighur: “Қәшқәр”
  • Uighur: “قەشقەر شەھرى”
  • Uighur: “قەشقەر شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “قەشقەر”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашгар”
  • Urdu: “کاشغر”
  • Urdu: “کاشگر”
  • Uzbek: “Qashqar”
  • Venetian: “Kashgar”
  • Vietnamese: “Kashgar”
  • Vietnamese: “Khách Thập”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kashgar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kashi”
  • Welsh: “Kashgar”
  • Western Frisian: “Kasjgar”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاشغر”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀什噶厄”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀什市”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀什”

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