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Xinjiang

Hotan Prefecture

Hotan Prefecture is located in the region of southwestern Xinjiang, China, bordering the to the south and Union Territory of Ladakh and to the west.
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  • Type: Region with 2,120,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level division of the People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “Hetian Diqu”, “Hetian Prefecture”, “Ho-t’ien Chuan-ch’ü”, “Ho-t’ien Ti-ch’ü”, and “Hotan Diqu”
Photo: Colegota, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.
Photo: Colegota, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Unity Plaza and Hotan Museum.

Park
Photo: Yoshi Canopus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tuanjie Square or Unity Square is the main public square of , a major town in southwestern near the border with the .

Museum
Photo: Hiroki Ogawa, CC BY 3.0.
Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum is a museum in , , . Founded in 1995, it has a range of silk fragments, wooden utensils and jewelry, and mummified corpses of a 10-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man with Eurasian faces, believed to be over 1,500 years old.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khotan.

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, is a town on the southern Branch of the Silk Road in Province in . was once center of a Buddhist empire. The old capital, Yoktan, is about 10 km west of the current city.

Hotan Prefecture

Latitude
37.1145° or 37° 6′ 52″ north
Longitude
79.92° or 79° 55′ 12″ east
Population
2,120,000
Elevation
1,314 metres (4,311 feet)
Open location code
8J9X4W7C+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5033667167
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1281018
Wiki­data ID
Q989885
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hotan Prefecture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ختن”
  • Arabic: “ولاية خوتان”
  • Basque: “Hotan prefektura”
  • Basque: “Khotan Prefektura”
  • Cebuano: “Hotan Diqu”
  • Chinese: “Hotan Tē-khu”
  • Chinese: “和田”
  • Chinese: “和田专区”
  • Chinese: “和田地区”
  • Chinese: “和田地區”
  • Chinese: “和闐地區”
  • Chinese: “和阗专区”
  • Chinese: “和阗地区”
  • Czech: “Chotan (prefektura)”
  • Czech: “Chotan”
  • Danish: “Hotan”
  • Dutch: “Hotan Prefecture”
  • Estonian: “Hotani ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Hotanin prefektuuri”
  • French: “Prefecture de Hotan”
  • French: “préfecture de Hotan”
  • French: “Préfecture de Hotan”
  • Gan Chinese: “和田地区”
  • German: “Hotan”
  • German: “Khotan”
  • German: “Regierungsbezirk Hotan”
  • Hebrew: “הוטן”
  • Hebrew: “חוטאן (נציבות)”
  • Hebrew: “חוטאן”
  • Hebrew: “נציבות חוטאן”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोतान विभाग”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोतान”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Hotan”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Hotan”
  • Japanese: “ホータン地区”
  • Japanese: “和田地区”
  • Korean: “허톈 지구”
  • Korean: “호탄 지구”
  • Korean: “호탄지구”
  • Lithuanian: “Hotano prefektūra”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hotan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hotan Tē-khu”
  • Mongolian: “Хотан тойрог”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chotan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hotan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khotan”
  • Norwegian: “Hotan”
  • Ossetian: “Хотан (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Хотан”
  • Persian: “ولایت ختن”
  • Polish: “Hetian”
  • Polish: “Hotan”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Hotan”
  • Russian: “округ Хотан”
  • Russian: “Хотан”
  • Slovak: “Prefektúra Chotan”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Jotan”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Jotán”
  • Swedish: “Hotan Diqu”
  • Swedish: “Hotan, Xinjiang”
  • Tatar: “Хөтән бүлгесе”
  • Tatar: “Хөтән округы”
  • Turkish: “Hotan İli”
  • Turkish: “Hotan”
  • Uighur: “Hotan Diqu”
  • Uighur: “Hotan”
  • Uighur: “Xoten wilayiti”
  • Uighur: “Xoten Wilayiti”
  • Uighur: “Xoten”
  • Uighur: “خوتەن ۋىلايىتى”
  • Uighur: “خوتەن”
  • Ukrainian: “Хотан округ”
  • Ukrainian: “Хотан”
  • Urdu: “ختن پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Hòa Điền, Tân Cương”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoà Điền”
  • Vietnamese: “Hotan”
  • Vietnamese: “Khotan”
  • Western Panjabi: “خوتان پریفیکچر”
  • Wu Chinese: “和田地区”
  • Yue Chinese: “和闐地區”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Nurbagh and Gulbagh.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hotan Prefecture Administrative Office and Underground market.

Xinjiang: Must-Visit Destinations

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