Pishan County
| Pishan County 皮山县 • گۇما ناھىيىسى | |
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.png) Location of Pishan/Guma County (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Guma Location of the seat (town of Guma) in Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates: 37°37′N 78°17′E / 37.62°N 78.28°ECoordinates: 37°37′N 78°17′E / 37.62°N 78.28°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Hotan |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 皮山县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 皮山縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 固玛县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 固瑪縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur |
گۇما ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Pishan County (Chinese: 皮山县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guma County (Uyghur: گۇما ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 固玛县), 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 (15,217 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 220,000. Pishan was the site of the 2011 Pishan hostage crisis.
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