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Major Silk Road Cities in China

The Silk Road is a major artery for the long-distance trade and cultural exchange between ancient Asia and Europe during the period from the 2nd century BC to the 16th century AD.Many cities and oases connected Eastern and Western civilizations, witnessed the glory of ancient Silk Road

Dunhuang

Dunhuang( means large and porperous in Chinese) is a city in northwestern Gansu province, Western C ...

Jiayuguan

Jiayuguan city lies in the middle section of the Hexi Corridor. It took its name from the Jiayuguan ...

Zhangye

Zhangye, which is also called Ganzhou, lies in the middle of Hexi Corridor. It is an important part ...

Wuwei

Wuwei is located in northwest central Gansu province. In the north it borders Inner Mongolia, in th ...

Lanzhou

The city of Lanzhou lies at the geographical heart of China. Lanzhou, also known as Lan-chou or Lanc ...

Xiahe

For tourists who are visiting the Gannan Tibetan region by going south from Gansu Province, Xiahe Co ...

Tianshui

The city of Tianshui was for centuries an important town on the Silk Road, being the first stop in G ...

Turpan

Turpan is an old city with a long history. Traces have been found of humans living there, dating as ...

Urumqi

Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is the largest city in Western China and possi ...

Tongren

Tongren County known to Tibetans as Rebkong in the region previously known as Amdo is the capital ...

Xining

is the capital of Qinghai province in western China, and the largest city on the Qinghai-Tibet Plate ...

Alxa youqi

Alxa youqi is located in the north-western part of inner Mongolian. Has an area around 73,000 sq kil ...

Ejina Qi

Ejina Qi Located in the western end of Mongolian autonomous region in China. It Border with Jiuquan ...

Langmusi

Langmusi is Chinese name for the little village, in Tibetan its Taktsang Lhamo , which is a popular ...

Kashgar

Kashgar (known in Chinese as Kashi) is an oasis city with an approximate population of 350,000. It ...

Xi'an

Xi'an is more than 3,000 years old and was known as Chang'an in ancient times. For 1,000 years, the ...

Luoyang

Luoyang was once called"Yuzhou", located in western Henan Province on the middle reaches of the yell ...

Yinchuan

Yinchuan is the capital of Ninxia Hui Autonomous region and former capital of the Western Xia Empire ...

Kuqa

Kuqa County is located at the southern foot of the central Tianshan Mountains and the northern edge ...

Longnan

Longnan, located at the southeast tip of Gansu Province, bordering Shaanxi Province in the east, Si ...

Khotan

Khotan is located in the southernmost tip of Xinjiang, and is known in ancient times as "Yutian," wh ...

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