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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Wu Hu, Ethnic groups in Chinese history, Xianbei, Jurchen people, Tabgach, Jie people, Tuoba, Kashgar, Yuezhi, Baiyue, Yarkant County, Turpan, Hotan, Dongyi, Dayuan, Khitan people, Donghu people, Wusun, Karasahr, Tuyuhun Kingdom, Khitan scripts, Shatuo, Kara-Khitan Khanate, Aksu, Xinjiang, Rouran Khaganate, Qiang people, Kucha, Tashkurgan, Xinjiang, Sumpa, Seres, Huna people, Loulan Kingdom, State of Dai, Uar, Shiwei, Di, Xueyantuo, Dian Kingdom, Keriya Town, Heishui Mohe, Xianyun, Chouchi, Minfeng Town, Shanyue, Xunyu, Hua, Yuwen, Phryni, Wuhuan, Yuwen Qidegui, Bandun Man, Tingling. Excerpt: Kashgar or Kashi (Uyghur: , ULY: Qeshqer, UPNY: K xk r, Chinese: pinyin: K shi, Persian, Urdu, Hindustani: / ) is an oasis city with approximately 350,000 residents in the western part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 km and a population of approximately 3.5 million. The city covers an area of 15 km . The altitude averages 1,289 m/4,282 ft. above sea level. The city is located in the western extremity of China, near the border with Tajikistan. The modern Chinese name is (K shi), a shortened form of the longer and less-frequently used (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: K shige' r). Ptolemy (AD 90-168), in his Geography, Chapter 15.3A, refers to Kashgar as "Kasia." The name is Middle Iranic in its origin, meaning "Kush Mountains" (from gar/ghar, "mountain," and Kush/Kash, being the same as the ethnonym of the Kushan Empire and the Hindukush mountains in the neighboring Afghanistan. An early Chinese name was (now Shule County), variously romanized as Su-leh, Sulei, Shule, Shu-le', She-le, Shu-lo or Sha-le, which perhaps represents either an original Solek or Sorak...
