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Tumxuk 图木舒克Túmùshūkè
A young Bingtuan city with desert wetlands and a Tang hill fort
- Type
- County-level Cityadministered directly by Xinjiang
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Listed sites
- 21 rated 4A · 1 national heritage
About Tumxuk
Tumxuk, the city of the 3rd Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (Bingtuan), was set up in 2002 in the western Tarim Basin east of Kashgar, on farmland watered by the Yarkand and Kashgar rivers. South of the city, Yong'an Lake mixes open water, reed beds and dunes in a wetland reserve for migrating birds. To the north, the walls of Tang Wangcheng (Toqquz Saray), a Tang garrison on the road between Kucha and Kashgar, climb a rocky hill.
Listed sites in Tumxuk
2 sites in Tumxuk are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Yong'an Lake 永安湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake-and-desert recreation area on Yong'an Lake, part of the wetlands of the lower Yarkand River south of Tumxuk, where open water, reed beds, desert poplars, sand dunes and a bare mountain ridge lie side by side. - Tang Wangcheng (Toqquz Saray) Ruins 唐王城 National heritage site · on the map
Ruins of a walled town on a rocky hill north of Tumxuk, known in Uyghur as Toqquz Saray ('nine stations'), which was the seat of the small kingdom of Weitou under the Han and the Tang garrison town of Jushide on the road between Kucha and Kashgar.
On the map
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