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Kashgar Prefecture

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County-level divisions
  
12

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

License Plate
  
新Q

Metropolitan area
  
555 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 5:06 AM

Prefecture seat
  
Kashgar

Postal code
  
844000

Area
  
112,057 km²

Province
  
Xinjiang

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Country
  
People's Republic of China

Weather
  
3°C, Wind NW at 14 km/h, 48% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Id Kah Mosque, Khunjerab Pass, Afaq Khoja Mausoleum, K2, Broad Peak

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Kashgar Prefecture or Kashi Prefecture officially Kaxgar Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 喀什地区; traditional Chinese: 喀什地區; pinyin: Kāshí Dìqū; Uyghur: قەشقەر ۋىلايىتى, Қәшқәр Вилайити‎, ULY: Qeshqer Wilayiti, UYY: K̡əxk̡ər Vilayiti?; also spelled Kashgar) is located in southwestern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 112,057 km2 (43,265 sq mi) and 3,979,321 inhabitants at the 2010 census with a population density of 35.5 inhabitants/km² ).

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Map of Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

The capital of the prefecture is the city of Kashgar which has a population 506,640.

Ethnic groups in Kashgar Prefecture

The population of Kashgar Prefecture is 3,979,321 according to the 2010 census. It has a population density of 35.5 inhabitants per km2.

Population by ethnicity

References

Kashgar Prefecture Wikipedia