Silk Road -- From Xi'an to the Pamirs

Author: Gu Weiheng, Pan Xiaozhu (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: The Silk Road is the longest and oldest overland trade route in the world. This ancient trade route was established in the 2nd century BC. It spans the Eurasian continent, covering one-third of the world's land area. It starts in An (now Xi'an) in the Wei River Basin, passes through Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, crosses the Pamirs (now the Pamir Plateau), and then goes through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria to reach the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is over 7,000 kilometers long.