China: The new outer walls of the Hui Wang Fen (Palace and Tombs of the Hami Kings) complex, Hami (Kumul), Xinjiang Province. The Kings of Hami were hereditary Uighur rulers who paid tribute to China. The last king of Hami, Maqsud Shah died in the mid-1930s. Nine generations of kings of Hami are buried here. The ancient oasis settlement of Hami, also known in Uighur as Kumul, sits in a fault depression about 200 m below sea level and, like nearby Turpan, experiences extremes of temperature ranging from a scalding 45 C in summer to a freezing -30 C in winter.

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