Rawak Stupa
Rawak is a Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China, along the famous trade route known as the Silk Road in the first millennium Kingdom of Khotan.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China
- Also known as: “Rewake Buddhist Temple Ruins”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Rawak Stupa
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.34599° or 37° 20′ 46″ northLongitude
80.16366° or 80° 9′ 49″ eastOpen location code
8M9285W7+9FOpenStreetMap ID
way 458720454OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q2133750
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“Rawak Stupa” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “热瓦克佛寺遗址”
- Finnish: “Rawak Vihara”
- German: “Rawak Vihara”
- German: “Rawak”
- German: “Rewake Fosi yizhi”
- German: “Ruinen der buddhistischen Klosterstadt Rawak”
- Indonesian: “Stupa Rawak”
- Portuguese: “Estupa Rawak”
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