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Ruoqiang Town

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Ruoqiang Town Chinese: 若羌; pinyin: Ruòqiāng; Uyghur: Чакилик: Qakilik or Charklik is a town in Ruoqiang County, Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Ruoqiang Town is the county seat of the Ruoqiang County, and therefore is the place that less detailed maps label as "Ruoqiang County" or just "Ruoqiang". The postal code is 841 800.

Quick Facts چاقىلىق若羌镇Charklik, Qakilik, Jo-ch'iang, Country ...

There is a two-laned asphalt highway to Korla, 490 km (304 mi) north, and 956 km (594 mi) west to Hotan. There is no motorable road east to Dunhuang in Gansu,[4] but one can now drive southeast through the Altun Shan range and then north through part of the Tsaidam to Dunhuang.

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Names

Lionel Giles has recorded the following names for Ruoqiang Town (with his Wade-Giles forms of the Chinese names converted to pinyin):

"Yixun, or Yixiu, capital of Shanshan after 77 B.C. (Note: This is an incorrect identification, the capital's name was, in fact, Yüni 扜泥.)[5]
Shanshan Zhen [Sui].
Nafubo (纳缚波) [Xuanzang].
Dianhe [Tang].
Shicheng Zhen [Tang after A.D. 675].
Great Nob [Tibetan records].
City of Lop [Marco Polo]
Charkhlik [modern name]."[6]
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History

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Couple selling jade in Charklik. 2011

A site within or adjoining Ruoqiang Town, Yüni 扜泥 was an ancient settlement of the independent kingdom of Kroraina (Chinese: Lou-Lan). During the latter part of the Former Han and throughout the Later Han, Yüni was the capital of the kingdom of Shanshan,[7] a Han vassal state that succeeded Kroraina.

The modern Ruoqiang Town was founded in 1984.[8]

In 2014, Xincheng and Loulan were established as residential communities.[9]

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Geography

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New Loulan Museum in Charklik (Ruoqiang)

Almost adjacent to the town are the Tieganlike Town, to the east, and Wutamu Township, to the west. They, however, are not administratively part of Ruoqiang Town, but are separate township-level administrative units.

Ruoqiang Town was used by numerous notable explorers as a launching point to the Lop Nor archaeological sites, which are located within 150–200 km (93–124 mi) to the northeast.

Climate

Ruoqiang has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWk) with extreme seasonal variation in temperature. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −7.4 °C (18.7 °F) in January to 27.5 °C (81.5 °F), and the annual mean is 11.7 °C (53.1 °F). Precipitation totals only 29 millimetres (1.1 in) annually, and mostly falls in summer. No month has less than 60% of possible sunshine, and the area receives close to 3,100 hours of bright sunshine annually.

More information Climate data for Ruoqiang, elevation 888 m (2,913 ft), (1991–2020 normals), Month ...
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Administrative divisions

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Map including Ruoqiang (labeled as Jo-ch’iang) from the International Map of the World (DMA, 1975)

As of 2018, the town was made up of five residential communities:[1][12][8]

Residential Communities

Transportation

The town is the junction of China National Highway 315 and China National Highway 218, and is the southern terminus of the latter.

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