The best in Xinjiang
4 min readSpeaking of Xinjiang’s largeness, we have to count the -est”s in Xinjiang.
Is Chinas largest administrative region with a land area of 1,664,900km, accounting for 1/6 of the total land area of the country.
Is a provincial region with the longest land border line in China with a land boundary line of more than 5 600km. accounting for 1/4 that of china: Is a provincial region with the most bordering countries in China, bordering 8 countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Ta jikistan, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan Has the largest inland basin in the world–Tarim Basin which stretches 1, 400km from east to west,and 550km from north to south with an area of about 530 000km².
Has the largest desert in China and the second largest desert in the world-Taklimakan Desert which extends 1.500km from east to west and 600km from north to south with an area of about 337.000km².
Has the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China-Gurbantunggut Desert ;
Has the largest glacier in China–Insukati Glacier. which is located at the north slope of Chogori of the Karakoram Mountains in the Pamir Plateau with a length of about 40km;
Has the longest inland river in China–Tarim River with a total length of 2, 179km;
Has the only exorheic river flowing into the Arctic Ocean in China–Irtysh River, which is also the only river in China that flows farthest northwards into the arctic Ocean with a total length of 4. 248km and the section in China is 600km;
Has the largest inland freshwater lake in China-Bosten lake with an area of 1. 228km And the deepest part of the lake is 17 m;
Has the largest seismo-fault in China-Fuyun Seismo-Fault which has a total length of 176km, a largest horizontal displacement of 14m and the largest vertical offset of 1. 4 m;
Has the lowest land in China-Aydingkol Lake in the Turpan Basin, the world’s second depression of 154m below sea level;
Has the highest natural skating rink in China-Tianchi below the bogda peak of Tianshan Mountains. 1.980m above sea level;
Has the deepest tundra in ChinaBayanbulak in Hejing County of Xinjiang;
Has the largest county in China-Ruoqiang (Qarkilik) County with an area of over 200000km²;
Has the largest prefecture in China–Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture with a land area of 480 000km known as “the first State in China”;
Has the highest highway in the world–Xin-Zang highway, whose whole course is over 5,000m above sea level and 6, 035m above sea level at the highest part;
Has the longest desert highway in the world-two desert highways which traverse the Taklimakan desert;
Has the longest underground irrigation system in the world-karez, an irrigation system of wells connected by underground channel used in Xinjiang, and its total length is over 5.000km;
Has Asia’s first and world’s second wind power plant–Urumqi Dabancheng Wind Region;
Has the largest iron meteorite in china-with a length of 242cm width of 185cm height of 137cm and volume of 3 5m Its weight is about 30 tons ranking third in the world;
Has the grapes with the highest sugar content–Xin jiang has the largest growing area, the highest yield and the highest sugar content of grape in China. The sugar content of hampson Seedless grape, the best variety, reaches 20%-27%;
Has the wheat grain with the longest buried time in China-which is unearthed in Ruoqiang County in Xinjiang and buried in the earth for over 500 years and can also sprout and bear fruit after being sown.
Has Chinas best quality walnut–walnuts in Aksu, Hotan and Yecheng of Xinjiang;
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Xinjiang, which is really vast and grand, even can be deemed as some kind of monopoly”for it has so many “-est titles of China. She is the provincial region in China with the highest cotton yield, the most coal resources, the most irrigated areas of over athousand hectares, the most oil and gas resources, the largest badam apricot planting area and the most per capita amount of fruits. countless”-est”s of the nature aspects countless”-est”s of the geographical aspects, countless “-est”s of the resource aspects and countless”-est”s of the humanity aspects which make people exclaim heartily Xinjiang’s grandness is beyond comparison.
People who have not been to Xin jiang may fear the remoteness of Xin jiang and think that Xinjiang is desolate and lonely with wild and extensive Gobi deserts and extremely cold and white snow. In fact, our Xin jiang is a vast and magical land for people to be proud of her vastness is enthralling her beauty gives people spiritual shock: her affectionateness makes people linger over; she is a gem that makes people fall into a reverie; she is the kingdom of various creatures in the nature, where people enjoy themselves so much that they put the leaving thing behind; she is a treasury of minerals, for which, people cannot hide their ecstasy and excitement……
