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- Hotan or Khotan (see also § Etymology) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Northwestern China.
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The oasis of Hotan is strategically located at the junction of the southern (and most ancient) branch of the Silk Road joining China and the West with one of the main routes from ancient India and Tibet to Central Asia and distant China.
Hotan Prefecture [10] (see also § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Union Territory of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan to the west.
Hotan, oasis town, southwestern Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, far western China. Hotan forms a county-level city and is the administrative centre of the Hotan prefecture (diqu), which administers a string of counties based on the oases along the southern edge of the Takla Makan Desert.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 9, 2021 · It is located in the south corner of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with its center at 79.92 ° E and 37.12 ° N. it borders the Kunlun Mountains and Tibet Autonomous Region in the south, the Taklimakan Desert in the north and Aksu, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the East, Kashgar in the west, and Karakoram mountains in the south...
Hotan County is the southernmost county-level division of Xinjiang. The county borders Karakax/Moyu County to the northwest, Hotan City and Lop County to the northeast, Qira County to the east, Pishan County to the west, and (in Aksai Chin) Rutog County, Tibet to the southeast.
Located at the northern foot of the Karakorgan Range and on the southern fringe of the Taxkorgan Desert, Hotan is an oasis lying in the Tarim Basin, neighboring to Bayingolin to the east, Aksu to the north, Kashgar to the west, and Jammu and Kashmir to the southwest.
Jul 18, 2022 · Hotan, a hustling center on the south route of the ancient Silk Road, has attractions such as Ancient City of Niya & Mallikurwatur& Yoktan and Hotan Museum.
