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Kashgar or Kashi is an oasis county-level city with 3,979,921 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 819,095 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Kashgar District and Shule County now linked by urbanization. The city itself was home to 506,640 inhabitants. It's located in the western extremity of the People's Republic of China, near the border with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region which has an area of 162,000 square kilometres (63,000 sq mi). The city's urban area extends for 555 km2 (214 sq mi).