🏛️ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor

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Silk Roads: The Routes Network of Chang'an-Tian Shan Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers the Chang'an-Tianshan portion of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route. On June 22, 2014, UNESCO designated a 5,000 km (3,100 mi) stretch of the Silk Road network from Central China to the Zhetysu region of Central Asia as a World Heritage site. The corridor spans China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and includes 33 new sites and several previously designated heritage sites.

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Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor is a cultural World Heritage site in China, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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