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Ho⋅tan

  [haw-tahn]
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–noun Pinyin.
1. an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.
2. the chief city in this oasis. 50,000.
Also, Hetian, Hotien, Khotan.
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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.

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