What is the road map of the Silk Road?

The route of the Silk Road: Chang 'an-Hexi Corridor-Dunhuang-{Yumenguan-Yangguan} Western Regions-Rest in Peace-Daqin (Rome).

The overland Silk Road originated from the Western Han Dynasty (22-8 BC), which started from the capital Chang 'an (now Xi 'an) and passed through Gansu and Xinjiang to Central Asia and West Asia, and connected the Mediterranean countries.

the starting point of the silk road in the eastern Han dynasty was Luoyang. Its original function was to transport silk produced in ancient China. In 1877, Richthofen, a German geological geographer, named the "Silk Road" as "the transportation road in the western regions between China and Central Asia and between China and India from 114 BC to 127 AD" in his book China. This term was quickly accepted by the academic circles and the public, and it was formally used.

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The 38th World Heritage Conference held in Doha, Qatar on June 22, 214 announced that the eastern section of the ancient Silk Road jointly declared by China and Haji: "Silk Road: Road Network of Chang 'an-Tianshan Corridor" was successfully declared as a world cultural heritage, making it the first project of transnational cooperation and successful application.

The 38th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Doha, Qatar, deliberated and approved the inclusion of China's Grand Canal Project and the Silk Road Project jointly declared by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the World Heritage List, becoming the 32nd and 33rd world cultural heritages in China. Among them, the "Silk Road" is the first time that China has jointly applied for the World Heritage.

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