Hoxtolgay or Heshituoluogai (Chinese: 和什托洛盖镇 Héshítuōluògài Zhèn) is a town in Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County

Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County

Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County is a county situated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Tacheng Prefecture. It has an area of 28,799 km² with a population of 50,000. The Postcode is 834400....

, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, PR China. It is located at 46°34′N 85°58′E, about 200 miles north of Ürümqi

Ürümqi

Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....

 in the Dzungaria

Dzungaria

Dzungaria, also called Zungaria, is a geographical region in northwest China corresponding to the northern half of Xinjiang. It covers approximately , lying mostly within Xinjiang, and extending into western Mongolia and eastern Kazakhstan...

 Basin. Hoxtolgay is an oasis town with an area of 6684 km² and a population of 22,000.

Situated 30 miles WNW of a point listed as the farthest point from the sea (at 46°16.8′N 86°40.2′E) by the Guinness Book of World Records, Hoxtolgay may qualify as the town remotest from the nearest coastline, roughly 2646 kilometres from the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...

 (see Continental Pole of Inaccessibility for other candidates).

External links

• http://www.travelpost.com/AS/China/Xinjiang/Hoxtolgay/entry/193769* traveler blog concerning yardang
  Yardang
  A yardang is a streamlined hill carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semiconsolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion, dust and sand, and deflation. Yardangs become elongated features typically three or more times longer than wide, and when viewed from above, resemble the hull of...
  
  around Hoxtolgay