Footprints of Foreign Explorers on the Silk Road

Author: Wu Dunfu
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Anyone who looks at a map of China may see a vast landmass marked in northwest China named "Xinjiang". Xinjiang, situated in the extreme northwest of China and the central part of the Euro-Asia Continent, is surrounded by mountain ranges and far from any oceans in the world. To the northeast of it is Mongolia, and to the northwest are Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Xinjiang also shares borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan, as well as India in the south. The total borderlines are 5600 kilometers in length.