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Northeast of Turpan, the road skirts the Flaming Mountains (“Kizilatak” in Uighur, “Huoyanshan” in Chinese).
The city of Jiaohe, 10 km (6 miles) west of Turpan, was founded in the second century b.c. and laid out in a grid.
Because of Turpan’s location in the Tarim Basin — at 79 m (260 ft) below sea level, this is the second-deepest continental basin in the world — it’s startling to discover here a sizeable city where houses are supplied with electricity and running water and shady trees line the streets.
The customers, mostly of the Uighur nationality — Uighurs make up 80 percent of Turpan’s residents — give this Silk Road oasis a most un-Chinese atmosphere.
Turpan is about 200 km (125 miles) southeast of Urumqi, the regional capital.