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The wind had smoothed its sand over the nearby mountains, turning them to ghosts. And beyond the snow-mass of Muztagata we entered the valley of Taxkorgan, the last town in the west.
1993, “TAJIK NATIONALITY”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, 中国少数民族风情录 [In Search of China's Minorities], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region.
Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik.]
2017 May 10, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 May 2017, Environment:
The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Xinhua said in a microblog post 11 people were also injured.
