Hotan, Hotan

China

Hotan, Hotan connects to 2745 places across 13 topics through 63 Bunkabop connections, with history as the dominant thread. The city's ties to Xinjiang and Kashgar trace through the Silk Road era, when the Kingdom of Khotan's inhabitants spoke Saka, an Eastern Iranian language. Hotan also surfaces in connections tied to the Tarim mummies found in the region, the 1937 Islamic rebellion that brought the province under warlord Sheng Shicai's control, and a 2022 railway linking the city to Ruoqiang in southern Xinjiang.