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Pishan County

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Country
  
China

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Prefecture-level division
  
Hotan Prefecture

Prefecture-level divisions
  
Hotan Prefecture

Province
  
Xinjiang

Pishan County

The Pishan (Guma) County (Uyghur: گۇما ناھىيىسى, Гума Наһийиси‎, ULY: Guma Nahiyisi, UYY: Guma Nah̡iyisi?) is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture. It contains an area of 39,412 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 220,000. Pishan was the site of the 2011 Pishan hostage crisis.

Map of Pishan, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

References

Pishan County Wikipedia