Hotan

Hotan, is a prime oasis metropolis in southwestern Xinjiang, an self reliant place in western China. The town right of Hotan broke off from the bigger Hotan County to turn out to be an administrative location in its personal proper in August 1984. It is the seat of Hotan Prefecture. With a populace of 322,300, Hotan is located inside the Tarim Basin some 1,500 kilometres southwest of the nearby capital, Urumqi.

It lies simply north of the Kunlun Mountains, that are crossed through the Sanju, Hindutash and Ilchi passes. The town, located southeast of Yarkant County and populated nearly completely by Uyghurs, is a minor agricultural middle. An crucial station on the southern branch of the historical Silk Road, Hotan has always trusted robust rivers - the Karakash River and the White Jade River to offer the water had to live to tell the tale at the southwestern edge of the huge Taklamakan Desert.

The White Jade River nonetheless offers water and irrigation for the town and oasis. The oasis of Hotan is strategically positioned on the junction of the southern branch of the Silk Road joining China and the West with one of the principal routes from historical India and Tibet to Central Asia and remote China. It supplied a handy meeting area wherein now not most effective items, but technologies, philosophies, and religions have been transmitted from one tradition to any other.