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Tajik women, Tashkurgan (means Stone Fortress in Uyghur), at 10,100 feet, along the Karakoram Highway. It was a caravan stop on the Silk Road and all routes of the Silk Road converged here to journey southward to Pakistan. It sits on the borders of both Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and is close to the border of Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan. The majority population in the town are ethnic Mountain Tajiks. Xinjiang Province, China.
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Asia, China, China-East Asia, China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, Ethnic minority groups, Horizontal, Indigenous culture, KKH, Karakoram Highway, Minority groups, N-35, National Highway 35, Native costume, Pamir Mountains, People, Silk Road, Tajik, Tajik nationality, Tajik women, Tashkurgan, Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Taxkorgan, Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Traditional clothing, Travel destinations, Uygur Culture, West China, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

