Beautiful scenery of City of stone at sunrise in autumn, ruins of the royal castle of the ancient Puli Kingdom, Taxkorgan, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. The snow mountains and ancient ruins with beautiful reflection in Taheman Grasslands in the morning sunhine. Taxkorgan County is located in the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau, where the Kunlun, Karakoram, Hindukush and Tian Shan mountains come together, at the borders with Afghanistan Wakhan Corridor, Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan Province and Pakistan Gilgit-Baltistan. The county seat is Taxkorgan Town.The Muztagh Ata, at 7,546 metres 24,757 ft, and the Kongur Tagh, at 7,719 metres 25,325 ft, are the main peaks in the county, while the two main rivers are the Taxkorgan River and the Tiznap or Tiznef River. By including the Trans-Karakoram Tract, the county also borders several eight-thousanders, including K2, at 8,611 metres 28,251 ft the second-highest mountain in the world. There are several hot springs and resources of gold, iron, and copper. During the Han dynasty, Taxkorgan was known as Puli ;during the Tang dynasty, it was a protectorate of the Parthians, during the Yuan dynasty it was part of the Chaghatai empire. Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County was created in 1954 and is part of the district of Kashgar.

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