Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County's population is 27,800.

The area of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County is 52,400 square kilometers.

Most Shiite Chinese are considered Hui and many practice Taqiyya or religious dissimulation (basically they pretend to be Sunni in public) in order to avoid persecution. The Chinese government has often not been friendly with Shiite Muslims, believing them to be responsible for Muslim-on-Muslim Wars in Xinjiang (while, the Chinese government mistakenly believes that the Sunni Ghalchas and Uighurs are innocent in this matter). As a result, numbers are quite hard to come by.

In terms of general information, most Chinese Shiites are the Ismaili Tajiks of the Tashkurgan and Sariqul areas of Xinjiang. The Shias of the Imami branch are numerous in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. Additionally, there are some Shiites who are recent immigrants from Iran, Lebanon, and other countries with large Shiite populations.