Xinjiang map, 2078x1370, Chinese and English, distances in kilometers, China
Xinjiang map, 2078x1370, Xinjiang road map, with distances, Chinese with some English.
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This map originally came from vbgood maps, and I adapted it to include the Tarim Highway, and the English placenames.
See another Xinjiang map, in Chinese with more English, with distances in kilometers, at Xinjiang Map, with Roads, Chinese, some English, distances in kilometers, 1535x1273, China
For extensive information about visiting towns along southern Xinjiang -- including transportation, lodging, dining and sightseeing -- see Central Asia Traveler.
The covered towns at this site include Hotan, Keriya / Yutian, Niya / Minfeng, Cherchen / Qiemo, and Charklik / Ruoqiang.
See a map of neighboring Qinghai Province to the southeast of Xinjiang.
A large format (2196 x 1547) map of Xinjiang in English is available at Xinjiang Map at Maps of China. Keep in mind three caveats about this English map.
-- First, to download the map, which is actually in six file segments, one must right-click on each of the segments and then use a graphics program to paste them together.
-- Second, the map erroneously shows the Tarim Highway reaching Highway 315 at Andirlingar, rather than near Niya / Minfeng, an error of 110 km to the east, and does not show the spur road going southeast from Tazhong along the Tarim Highway to near Cherchen / Qiemo.
-- Third, the map does not show distances.
It is otherwise a good map.
Shown in black across the center of the vast Taklamakan Desert is the Tarim Highway, completed in 1996, mainly to access the vast Tazhong oil reserves in the center of the vast Taklamakan Desert but also to open southern Xinjiang to economic development. The Tarim Highway is 562 km from Highway 314 at Bugur / Luntai in the north to Highway 315 near Niya / MInfeng in the south.
Starting 1 October 2007, a new cross-desert highway opened ~480 km from Hotan to Aksu, shortening the distance 43% between Hotan and Aksu from the 767 km via the Yarkand / Shache and Maralbishi / Bachu route. The overall route from Hotan to Korla and Urumqi will be only about 30 km shorter along the new highway compared with the Tarim Highway.