Yumen Pass

Yumen Pass
The ruin of the Small Fangpan Castle at Yumen Pass
Location	80 km NW of Dunhuang, Gansu, China
Coordinates	40°21′12.6″N 93°51′50.5″E / 40.353500°N 93.864028°E / 40.353500; 93.864028

Yumen Pass (simplified Chinese: 玉门关; traditional Chinese: 玉門關; pinyin: Yùmén Guān; Uyghur: قاش قوۋۇق, Qash Qowuq), or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220), this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed, and was the one road connecting Central Asia with East Asia (China), the former called the Western Regions. Just to the south was the Yangguan pass, which was also an important point on the Silk Road. These passes, along with other sites along the Silk Road, were inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site.^[1] The pass is at an elevation of 1400 meters.