Guma, Pishan County
Guma | |
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Town | |
  Guma Location in Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 37°37′N 78°18′E / 37.617°N 78.300°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Kashgar Prefecture |
| County | Pishan/Guma County |
Guma (Goma) Town (
Khotan and Karghalik and, in Han times, the route left from here to go to Arachosia (Kandahar) through Hunza.[1] It is located in the Taklamakan Desert, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, about 158 km southeast of Kashgar in modern Xinjiang, China.[2]
The
Today, Pishan is a small, rather poor town of about 2,000 people. The main crop is cotton. Most of the inhabitants are Uyghur and there are some Tajiks.
Pishan County is the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guma County. It is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
Transportation
Pishan is served by
Kashgar-Hotan Railway
.
See also
Footnotes
References
- Hill, John E. 2004. The Peoples of the West from the Weilüe 魏略 by Yu Huan 魚豢: A Third Century Chinese Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE. Draft annotated English translation.[1]
- Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.
- Hulsewé, A. F. P. 1979. China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BC – AD 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. E. J. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 90-04-05884-2.
- Roerich, George N. (1931): Trails to Inmost Asia: Five Years of Exploration with the Roerich Central Asian Expedition. Roerich. First Indian Reprint. Book Faith India, Delhi. 1996.
External links
- Satellite picture of Pishan
- Silk Road Seattle (The Silk Road Seattle website contains many useful resources including a number of full-text historical works)