Kashgar

Kashgar ”Oasis city”

Kashgar is an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. In 1999, the population was given as 205,056. Kashgar is sited west of the Taklamakan desert at the feet of the Tian Shan mountain range.
Situated at the junction of routes from the valley of the Oxus, from Khokand and Samarkand, Almati, Aksu, and Khotan, the last two leading from China and India, Kashgar has been noted from very early times as a political and commercial centre.
The Kashgar oasis is where both the northern and southern routes from China around the Taklamakan desert converge. It is also almost directly north of Tashkurgan through which traffic passed from Gandhara, in what is now northern Pakistan, and Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.