Kashgar, also known as Kashi, is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years Kashgar has been a strategically important oasis on the Silk Road linking China with Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with a population of 711,300 people as of 2019. It is now administered as a county-level city and is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture. It was declared a Special Economic Zone in 2010, and it forms a terminus of the Karakoram Highway.
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Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kashgar (Wikipedia)
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has a population of 711,300 people (as of 2019)
2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): SRTM 90 m elevation at 39.4681, 75.9938
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)Elevation result for the city coordinatesQuote, Elevation result for the city coordinates
"elevation": 1294.0
3. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Grid cell 39.25 N 75.75 E containing the city coordinatesQuote, Grid cell 39.25 N 75.75 E containing the city coordinates
39.25 75.75 BWk
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Asia/Shanghai commentQuote, Zone Asia/Shanghai comment
Beijing time, used throughout China; represented by Shanghai.
China (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this cityQuote, On Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this city
is a country in East Asia
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