Definition of "Taxkorgan"

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.

1990, Great Journeys‎, Simon & Schuster, page 35

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.

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, page 108

Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik.]

, East Gate Books, page 114

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.

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