Hotan, oasis town, southwestern Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, far western China. Hotan forms a county-level city and is the administrative centre of the Hotan prefecture ( diqu ), which administers a string of counties based on the oases along the southern edge of the Takla Makan Desert . More @Wikipedia
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