Ruin
Jiaohe Ruins
🇨🇳 China
The Jiaohe ruins, known by the local Uyghur populace as Yarghul, is a ruined city in the Yarnaz Valley, 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the city of Turpan in Xinjiang, China. It was the capital of the Tocharian kingdom of Jushi. It is a natural fortress located atop a steep cliff on a leaf-shaped plateau between two deep river valleys, and was an important stop along the Silk Road.
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Jiaohe Ruins ranks #804 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #25 of the 120 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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