Kashgar Prefecture,[3][4][5][6][7][8] also known as Kashi Prefecture,[9][10] is located in southwestern Xinjiang, China, located in the Tarim Basin region (roughly the southern half of Xinjiang). It has an area of 112,057 km2 (43,265 sq mi) and 4,496,377 inhabitants at the 2020 census[11] with a population density of 35.5 inhabitants/km2. The capital of the prefecture is the city of Kashgar which has a population 506,640.[12]
After the Communist takeover, Kashgar Prefecture (喀什專區) and Yarkant Prefecture (莎車專區) were established.
In 1902, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the prefecture.[14] It caused extreme devastation, destroying 30,000 homes and killing as many as 10,000 people.[15]
One of the most mysterious events that occurred in the early 1950s (and perhaps earlier),[16] was the closure of the Indian Consulate in Kashgar.
In 1955,
Tashkurgan County in today's Kashgar Prefecture.[17]
In June 1956, Yarkant Prefecture was dissolved and made part of Kashgar Prefecture.[18][19]
In January 1979, Kashgar zhuānqū Prefecture (喀什专区) became Kashgar dìqū Prefecture (喀什地区).[18]
In August 1982, Kashgar Prefecture opened a frontier post to exchange goods with Pakistan.[6]: 223
In 1992, it was proposed for 500,000 persons displaced by the Three Gorges Dam project, primarily Han Chinese, to be relocated to Kashgar Prefecture. The plans were met with widespread criticism in Xinjiang and internationally and were dropped.[20][21]
Alimujiang Yimiti / Alimjan Yimit, Uyghur leader of an unregistered Christian church, was sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Kashgar Prefecture Intermediate People's Court for "illegally providing state secrets or intelligence to foreign entities". In 2008, his detention was ruled in violation of international standards of due process by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.[7]
As of the end of 2017, 4,295,200 of the 4,649,700 residents of the prefecture were Uyghur, 288,000 were Han Chinese and 66,500 were from other ethnic groups.[26]
The population of Kashgar Prefecture was 4,499,158 according to the 2015 census. It has a population density of 35.5 inhabitants per km2.[27]
As of 2015, 4,140,255 of the 4,499,158 residents of the prefecture were Uyghur, 292,972 were Han Chinese and 65,931 were from other ethnic groups.[28]
The population growth of Kashgar declined significantly between 2015 and 2018.[29]
As of 1999, 89.37% of the population of Kashgar (Kasi) Prefecture was Uyghur and 9.1% of the population was Han Chinese.[30]
In 1997, the population of Kashgar Prefecture was 3,145,000 with Uyghurs making up 89.4% of the total.[18]
As of 1983–4, Kashgar Prefecture had 6,180 mosques.[5]
In the mid-1980's, there were two million Uyghurs in Kashgar Prefecture and 360,000 Han Chinese.[6]: 224
^From map: "DELINEATION OF INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES MUST NOT BE CONSIDERED AUTHORITATIVE"
^From map: "The representation of international boundaries is not necessarily authoritative."
^From map: "The representation of international boundaries is not necessarily authoritative"
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^ abc喀什概况 [Kashgar Overview] (in Chinese (China)). Kashgar Prefecture People's Government. 26 December 2018. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020. 喀什地区下辖1个市和11个县,即喀什市、疏附县、疏勒县、英吉沙县、岳普湖县、伽师县、莎车县、泽普县、叶城县、麦盖提县、巴楚县、塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县。喀什市是喀什地区行署所在地,
. in August 1982, Kashgar Prefecture opened a frontier post to exchange goods with Pakistan;{...}In Kashgar Prefecture there are two million Uighurs. The Han number only 360,000, but they are the ones in command.
. The results indicated that VL continues to be a serious public health problem in Kashi Prefecture, China, particularly in the north-central region of Jiashi County, which is a relatively high-risk area in which hot spots are distributed.
^3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数 (in Chinese). Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
^ abcd喀什地区历史沿革 [Kashgar Prefecture Historical Evolution]. XZQH.org. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020. 2010年第六次人口普查,喀什地区常住总人口3979321人,其中:喀什市506640人,疏附县311960人,疏勒县312455人,英吉沙县262067人,泽普县206936人,莎车县762385人,叶城县454328人,麦盖提县258978人,岳普湖县147688人,伽师县381767人,巴楚县336274人,塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县37843人。
^泽普概况 (in Simplified Chinese). Poskam (Zepu) County People's Government. 17 July 2017. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020 – via Internet Archive. 1956年6月莎车专区撤销,泽普县划归喀什地区至今。
^Pierre-Antoine Donnet (1990). Tibet: Survival in Question. Translated by Tica Broch. p. 100-101 – via Internet Archive. Concerning Xinjiang, the China Daily announced on 5 December 1992 that the Peking authorities had chosen the Kashgar region as the new home for almost 500,000 Chinese who would be displaced by the immense Three Gorges Dam project. Once the massive dam on the Yangtze river is operative, a great deal of farmland in central China's Hubei province will be permanently under water. When the final go-ahead is obtained for the project, says the official Chinese daily, 100,000 Chinese farmers will immediately be relocated in Kashgar prefecture, which is expected to absorb 480,000 in the long run. It goes without saying that a population transfer on this scale runs a real risk of further destabilizing an area where, as we have already seen, considerable Chinese Han immigration has taken place since the 1950s.
. In 1992 the China Daily reported a plan to relocate up to 470,000 people to Kashgar who were destined to be flooded out of their villages and towns by the Yangzi Three Gorges Dam, then just beginning construction in Central China. After demonstrations by affected villagers, complaints by Bingtuan and Xinjiang officials and an international outcry, Beijing officials dropped the idea.
^山脉平原. Kashgar Prefecture People's Government. 29 December 2018. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020. 世界上海拔在8000米以上的14座高峰中,有4座便坐落在喀喇昆仑山脉之中,其中海拔8611米的世界第二高峰——乔戈里峰,是喀喇昆仑山的主峰。
^疏附县历史沿革. XZQH.org. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 2014年,自治区政府(新政函[2014]8号)同意撤销乌帕尔乡,设立乌帕尔镇。2014年10月21日,自治区政府(新政函[2014]194号)同意将疏附县阿克喀什乡划归喀什市管辖。
National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2019. Archived
from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020. 统计用区划代码 名称 653101000000 喀什市 653121000000 疏附县 653122000000 疏勒县 653123000000 英吉沙县 653124000000 泽普县 653125000000 莎车县 653126000000 叶城县 653127000000 麦盖提县 653128000000 岳普湖县 653129000000 伽师县 653130000000 巴楚县 653131000000 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县
^喀什地区2017年国民经济和社会发展统计公报 (in Simplified Chinese). Kashgar Prefecture People's Government. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020. 年末人口总户数119.08万户,总人口464.97万人,比上年增加13.5万人,城镇人口106.50万人,占总人口比重为22.90%。汉族人口28.8万人,占总人口比重为6.2%;维吾尔族人口429.52万人,占总人口比重为92.4%;塔吉克族人口4.35万人,占总人口比重为0.94%;其他民族人口2万人,占总人口比重为0.43%。全年出生率12.83‰,死亡率4.82‰,人口自然增长率8.01‰。
^ ab3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数 (in Chinese (China)). Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019. Official statistics show that the combined net population growth rates of Hotan and Kashgar, two of the largest Uighur regions, dropped by about 84 percent between 2015 and 2018.