Guma

In Guma County, on the foothills of the Kunlun, in the locality of Kulan-Aryk, Sanju, etc., are between 300 and 350 persons affiliated to the Naiman, Teyit, Kesek, Boston and other groups .

1963, Central Asian Review, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 177

This is an original characteristic of the Turkic languages which has disappeared from the other dialects of modern Uygur, but it has been partly retained by the Lobnor dialect and the Hotan dialect spoken in the County of Guma.

1989, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, volume 79, →OCLC, page 245

Radio Free Asia reported that Friday’s attack took place in Guma County, known as Pishan in Chinese. A man who answered the telephone at the Pishan County Public Security Bureau said he had no information about the attack, and a man at the Pishan County People’s Hospital said, “We’re not allowed to answer your question, sorry.”

2015 February 17, Michael Forsythe, “Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 8 in Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia Reports”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2015, Asia Pacific

Among those who told NBC News they were detained was Omer, who was born in Guma County, a predominantly Uighur part of Xinjiang region. He said his ordeal began in 2017 when he was arrested at the airport in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital and largest city, after returning from Egypt where he had been working for six months as a chef.

2020 September 9, Willem Marx, Olivia Sumrie, “Uighurs accuse China of mass detention, torture in landmark complaint”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2020

In a January article on the Chinese site NetEase, Mau Tao, a CCP official in Guma county of southern Xinjiang, said that “religious extremism” was behind the lack of ethnic unity between Uighurs and Han Chinese. He said that 2000 and 2010 national censuses showed that Xinjiang had the lowest rate of interethnic marriage among ethnic minorities.

2020 August 21, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2021

He started by asking the elders and officials whether they knew of the discovery of any old books in the desert around Guma. Nobody had. Of the list of sites which Islam Akhun had included in his itinerary published by Hoernle, only two were known to them. As both lay close to Guma, Stein rode out to inspect them.

1984, Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, John Murray, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77