page_title: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: NJ-43-15 Shimshal, Pakistan
context_page_description: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in Western Xinjiang, China. The county seat is the town of Tashkurgan.
context_section_description: As of 2019, Tajiks made up 80.9% of the residents of the county.
  As of 2015, 32,867 (81.39%) of the 40,381 residents of the county were Tajiks, 2,911 (7.21%) were Han Chinese, 2,320 (5.74%) were Kyrgyz and 2,179 (5.40%) were Uyghur.
  In 1999, 6.28% of the population of Taxkorgan (Tashiku'ergan) County was Han Chinese and 5.08% of the population was Uyghur.
  In 1995, the total population of Taxkorgan was 27,800, among them 84% Tajiks of Xinjiang who speak the Sarikoli language, 4% Han and 12% other nationalities.
caption: Map including areas in the southern part of today's Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County (ACIC, 1969)
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