1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Kashgar, China before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kashgar—506,640, Asia/Urumqi, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kashgar is GeoNames ID 1280849. Its recorded administrative path is Kashi Diqu → Xinjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Kashgar occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-01-10; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kashgar ranks 1,130 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 288; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 594. Its 506,640 population value is 0.43 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.50 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kashgar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Kashgar's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kashgar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Andijan at 342.007 km with 747,800 recorded people; Bishkek at 396.01 km with 900,000 recorded people; Namangan at 403.803 km with 713,220 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 61.796 km. Compared with Andijan, Kashgar's recorded population is 0.68 times as large. Against Kashgar, Andijan follows Andijan Region → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Urumqi, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kashgar's. Against Kashgar, Bishkek follows Bishkek → Kyrgyzstan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kyrgyzstan cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Bishkek instead of Asia/Urumqi, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kashgar's. Against Kashgar, Namangan follows Namangan → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Urumqi, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kashgar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,137 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kashgar's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1280849, the coordinate pair 39.4672 / 75.9868, country rank 288 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1514588 at 342.007 km bind Kashgar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kashgar's reference point is 39.4672° north and 75.9868° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Urumqi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Kashgar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kashgar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kashgar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kashgar, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kashgar's closest other entries in this atlas are Andijan (342.007 km), Bishkek (396.01 km), Namangan (403.803 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-01-10; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.