Khotan

Khotan, is a town on the southern Branch of the Silk Road in Province in . Khotan was once center of a Buddhist empire. The old capital, Yoktan, is about 10 km west of the current city.
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  • City with about 501,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,380 metres (4,530 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code HTN
  • …was formerly known as “和闐”
  • Description: oasis town in the Tarim Basin, southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China
  • Also known as
    “Godana”
    “Godaniya”
    “Gosthana”
    “Gujiangbage”
    “Hetian”
    “Hetianshi Gujiang Bage Jiedao”
    “Ho-t’ien”
    “Ho-t’ien-chen”
    “Ho-tien-hsien”
    “Hotan”
    “和田地区”
    “和田市 خوتەن”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Unity Plaza and Hotan Museum.
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Tuanjie Square or Unity Square is the main public…
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Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum is a museum in Hotan, , .

Khotan

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Latitude
37.111° or 37° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
79.9209° or 79° 55′ 15″ east
Open location code
8J9X4W6C+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080551
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1281019
Wiki­data ID
Q235389

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Khotan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ختن”
  • Arabic: “خوتان”
  • Arabic: “هوتان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xotan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xotən”
  • Basque: “Hotan Hiria”
  • Basque: “Hotan”
  • Belarusian: “Хатан”
  • Bengali: “হোতান”
  • Bulgarian: “Хотан”
  • Catalan: “Hotan”
  • Catalan: “Yu-tien”
  • Catalan: “Yutian”
  • Cebuano: “Hotan (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Hotan”
  • Chinese: “Hétián Shì”
  • Chinese: “古江巴格”
  • Chinese: “和田”
  • Chinese: “和田市”
  • Chinese: “和田市古江巴格街道”
  • Chinese: “和阗市”
  • Chinese: “額里齊”
  • Czech: “Che-tchien”
  • Czech: “Chotan”
  • Dutch: “Hetian”
  • Dutch: “Hotan”
  • Dutch: “Khotan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ختن”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥotan”
  • Estonian: “Hotan”
  • Finnish: “Hotan”
  • French: “Hetian”
  • French: “Hotan”
  • French: “Hoten”
  • French: “Khotan”
  • Gan Chinese: “和田市”
  • Georgian: “ხოთანი”
  • Georgian: “ხოტანი”
  • German: “Hotan”
  • Greek: “Χοτάν”
  • Hebrew: “חוטאן”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोतान शहर”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोतान”
  • Hungarian: “Hotan”
  • Indonesian: “Hotan”
  • Indonesian: “Khotan”
  • Italian: “Hetian”
  • Italian: “Hotan”
  • Japanese: “ホータン”
  • Japanese: “ホータン市”
  • Japanese: “ホタン”
  • Japanese: “和田市”
  • Japanese: “和闐”
  • Japanese: “和闐県”
  • Kannada: “ಖೋಟಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хотан”
  • Kikuyu: “Hotan”
  • Kirghiz: “Котон”
  • Korean: “허톈 시”
  • Korean: “허톈”
  • Korean: “호탄 시”
  • Korean: “호탄”
  • Lithuanian: “Chotanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hetian”
  • Lithuanian: “Hetianas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hotanas”
  • Malagasy: “Hotan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hotan-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hotan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ilchi”
  • Norwegian: “Hotan”
  • Panjabi: “ਖ਼ੋਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “Khotan”
  • Persian: “ختن”
  • Polish: “Chotan”
  • Polish: “Hetian”
  • Polish: “Hotan”
  • Polish: “Hoten”
  • Portuguese: “Cotã”
  • Portuguese: “Hotan”
  • Russian: “Хотан”
  • Scots: “Hotan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hotan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Khotan”
  • Slovak: “Chotan”
  • Slovenian: “Hotan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ختن”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Jotán”
  • Spanish: “Hotán”
  • Spanish: “Jotán”
  • Spanish: “Khotán”
  • Spanish: “Kothan Fernández”
  • Swedish: “Chotan”
  • Swedish: “Hétián”
  • Swedish: “Hot’ien”
  • Swedish: “Hotan”
  • Swedish: “Khotan”
  • Swedish: “Kotan”
  • Swedish: “Xotaen”
  • Swedish: “Xotän”
  • Tamil: “கோத்தன்”
  • Tatar: “Хөтән”
  • Turkish: “Hotan”
  • Turkish: “Hoten”
  • Uighur: “Gujangbagh”
  • Uighur: “Hotən”
  • Uighur: “Xoten shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Xoten”
  • Uighur: “Хотән”
  • Uighur: “خوتەن شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “خوتەن”
  • Uighur: “گۇجانباغ”
  • Ukrainian: “Хотан”
  • Urdu: “ختن”
  • Urdu: “خوتان”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoà Điền”
  • Vietnamese: “Hotan”
  • Vietnamese: “Khotan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hotan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hetian”
  • Welsh: “Hotan”
  • Western Frisian: “Hotan”
  • Western Panjabi: “خوتان”
  • Wu Chinese: “和田市”
  • Yue Chinese: “和闐”

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