Pishan Hot Spring
Pishan may refer to: *Pishan County, in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China *Pishan Town, in Pishan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China *Pishan Island, an island in Chekiang Province, Republic of China Zhejiang or Chekiang is a ''de jure'' province in the Republic of China according to the ROC law, as the ROC government formally claims to be the legitimate government of the whole China. Founded after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, it was ' ...

Pishan County
Pishan County ( zh, s=皮山县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guma County ( ug, گۇما ناھىيىسى; zh, s=固玛县), is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 220,000. The county borders Maralbexi County and Makit County to the north, Karakax County, Hotan County and Kunyu to the east and Kargilik County to the west. The county includes lands near the Karakoram Pass which are part of the Aksai Chin area that is disputed between China and India. History In 1902, Pishan County was created from Guma, Sanju and other areas originally part of Kargilik. In March 1950, the Pishan County People's Government was established. In May 2010, Shahidulla (Xaidula/Saitula) was made a town. On the night of December 28, 2011, Koxtag (Kuoshi Tage) in Pishan was the site of the 2011 Pishan hostage cr ...
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Pishan Town
Guma (Goma) Town (; ), also known as Pishan Town (Chinese: 皮山镇, Pinyin: Píshān; written 皮亢, Pikang in the ''Weilüe''), is an ancient oasis town on the main caravan route between Khotan and Karghalik and, in Han times, the route left from here to go to Arachosia (Kandahar) through Hunza. It is located in the Taklamakan Desert, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, about 158 km southeast of Kashgar in modern Xinjiang, China. The ''Hanshu'' (which describes events up to 23 CE) mentions that it had 500 households, 3,500 individuals and 500 persons able to bear arms. It was an important hub for caravans heading south to India over the Karakorum route or through the Pamirs to Jalalabad or Badakhshan.Hulsewé (1979), p. 97. Today, Pishan is a small, rather poor town of about 2,000 people. The main crop is cotton. Most of the inhabitants are Uyghur and there are some Tajiks. Transportation Pishan is served by China National Highway ...
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Pishan Island
Pishan may refer to: *Pishan County, in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China *Pishan Town, in Pishan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China *Pishan Island, an island in Chekiang Province, Republic of China Zhejiang or Chekiang is a ''de jure'' province in the Republic of China according to the ROC law, as the ROC government formally claims to be the legitimate government of the whole China. Founded after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, it was ' ...