Kashi University (; ), formerly Kashgar University and Kashgar Normal College (), is a university in
Kashgar
Kashgar () or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years, Kashgar ...
,
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
, China.
History
The university is the westernmost university in China. The school was founded in 1962 and was formerly known as Xinjiang Kashgar Teachers College, then Kashgar Normal College,
and finally on April 28, 2015 the name was changed to Kashgar University as it was upgraded to university status.
External links
Kashgar University
References
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Universities and colleges in Xinjiang
Kashgar
Universities and colleges established in 1962
1962 establishments in China