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Cities and places across Xinjiang

From the Tian Shan to the Tarim Basin, this regional view places the magazine’s cities and selected sites in context. City markers are approximate orientation points; peaks indicate summits, not heritage boundaries or entrances.

Xinjiang · China
Ürümqi Changji Karamay Turpan Hami Ili Bortala Altay Tacheng Bayingolin Aksu Kashgar Hotan Kizilsu Ürümqi Grand Bazaar Bogda Grape Valley Yar City Tomur Kizil Caves Jiya

Simplified physical geography · orientation only

These places remain in the list without map markers because the available coordinates do not identify a reliable point.

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Bayingolin

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The road back across the mountains

In 1771 the Torghut left the Volga under Ubashi and crossed Central Asia to Qing territory. About seventy thousand of some hundred and seventy thousand arrived. Bayingolin keeps that journey in a mansion museum and a stage play.

The large lake

Bosten is Bohu's broad freshwater lake. A heritage market on the shore carries a Mongol name, and the lake stays the subject.

River bends in a high basin

Bayanbulak is the Tianshan component where a river loops through highland wetland, a different face from snow lake or forest meadow.