Kashgar or Kashi, is an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar city has an area of 15 km². The altitude averages 1,289.5 m/4,282 ft. above sea level. The annual mean temperature is 11.7°C, with a low of -24.4° in January and up to 40.1° in July. The frost-free period averages 215 days. The city is the administrative centre for Kashi or Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 km²

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