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The Turpan Depression or Turfan Depression, is a fault-bounded trough located around and south of the city-oasis of Turpan, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in far Western China, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) southeast of the regional capital Ürümqi.
The Turpan water system, also called the Turfan kārēz system, is used for water supply via a vertical tunnel in the Turpan Depression of Xinjiang, China. "Karez" ( lit. ' well ' ) is a word in the local Uyghur language that is derived from the word in the Persian language for the system from which it is derived: the 3000-year-old qanāt . [ 1 ]
Aydingkol (Uyghur: ئايدىڭكۆل, Айдиңкөл, Aydingköl), Aydingkul (Mongol) or Ayding (Chinese: 艾丁湖; pinyin: Àidīng Hú) is a lake in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, PR China. At 154 m below sea level, it is the lowest point in China. [1] This lake is now totally dried, and very muddy and salty. [2]
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Turpan is located about 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Ürümqi, Xinjiang's capital, in a mountain basin, on the northern side of the Turpan Depression, at an elevation of 30 m (98 ft) above sea level. Outside of Turpan is a small volcanic cone, the Turfan volcano, that is said to have erupted in 1120 as described in the Song dynasty. [ 61 ]
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Dzungaria (Red) and the Tarim Basin (Blue) Northern Xinjiang (Dzunggar Basin) (Yellow), Eastern Xinjiang- Turpan Depression (Turpan and Hami Prefecture) (Red), and the Tarim Basin (Blue) The Naqshbandi Sufi Khojas, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, had replaced the Chagatayid Khans as the ruling authority of the Tarim Basin in the early 17th ...
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