Yumenguan

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Yumenguan
Ruin on the Yumenguan

Ruin on the Yumenguan

Pass height 1130  m
region Gansu , People's Republic of China
expansion Pass road
Map (Gansu)
Yumenguan (Gansu)
Yumenguan
Coordinates 40 ° 21 '8 "  N , 93 ° 51' 50"  E Coordinates: 40 ° 21 '8 "  N , 93 ° 51' 50"  E
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The Yumenguan or " Jadetor Pass " ( Chinese  玉門關  /  玉门关 , Pinyin Yùmén Guān , English Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate ) is the name of a 1130 m high mountain pass west of Dunhuang in what is now Gansu Province , China . In ancient times the Silk Road passed over him. It linked Central Asia and China and marks the border between the Hexi Corridor or Gansu Corridor in the east and Xinjiang with the Tarim Basin and Djungaria in the west.

Yumenguan must not be confused with the city of Yumen ( 玉门  - " Jade Gate ") in Gansu , China . Although both are located in the prefecture-level city of Jiuquan in Gansu Province, Yumenguan is about 400 km west of the namesake.

The Yumenguan (pass) and the beacon towers along the Great Wall have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-210) since 1988 and have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled Silk Roads: the Chang'an-Tianshan Road Network since 2014 -Corridor .

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  1. ^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 7, 2019 .