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It covers an area of 270,000 km² of the Tarim Basin. It is crossed at its northern and at its southern edge by two branches of the Silk Road. The key oasis towns are Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan (Hetian) in the South-West, Kuqa and Turfan in the North and Loulan and Dunhuang in the East.

The White Jade River flows in the Taklamakan.

The archeological treasures found in its sand buried ruins point to TocharianTocharian refers to an Indo-European culture that inhabited the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic of China. The people who belonged to this culture are referred to as Tocharians. The Tocharians sp, early Hellenistic and Indian/Buddhistic influences. Its treasures and dangers have been vividly described by Aurel Stein, Sven HedinSven Hedin ( February 19, 1865 November 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer. Hedin was born in Stockholm. Between 1886 and 1892 he studied geology, mineralogy, zoology, and Latin in Stockholm, Uppsala, Berlin, and Halle. Between his graduation in 1892 and 19, Albert von Le CoqAlbert von Le Coq ( 1860 1930) was a German explorer of Central Asia. External links and references Die buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien Die Plastik (Postancient Buddhist Culture in Central Asia Sculpture), Berlin 1922: Hopkirk, Peter (1980). Forei and Paul PelliotPaul Pelliot ( May 28, 1878 October 26, 1945) was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. A pupil of Sylvain Levi, Pelliot conducted only one archaeological expedition into Central Asia. Pelliot worked at Ecole Francise d'Extreme Orient in Hanoi.

See also: Geography of ChinaChina stretches some 5,000 kilometers across the East Asian landmass in an erratically changing configuration of broad plains, expansive deserts, and lofty mountain ranges, including vast areas of inhospitable terrain. The eastern half of the country, its

References

• Hopkirk, Peter (1980). Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. BooksEnthsiast.com.
• Hopkirk, Peter (1994). The Great GameThe Great Game is a term, usually attributed to Arthur Connolly, used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The term was later popularized by British novelis: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. BooksEnthsiast.com.