Shahukou, Youyu, Shanxi 山西右玉杀虎口

Location: China, Shanxi, Youyu County, Shuozhou Google Maps Amap
Part of: Battlefields of China
Nearby: Yungang Grottoes →︎71km, Hohhot ↖︎86km, Datong →︎86km, Mount Heng (Northern Sacred Mountain) ↘︎157km, Mount Wutai ↘︎177km, Baotou ←︎199km, Mount Tiangui ↘︎253km, Yesanpo →︎257km, Xibaipo ↘︎260km, Taiyuan ↓︎262km

Shahukou, on the Shanxi–Inner Mongolia border northwest of Youyu County, is a gap between two hills and was a key opening in the Great Wall to the lands beyond. Called Shahukou (“kill the nomads”) in the Ming and given its present name in the Qing, it was the main gate for migrants “going west of the pass”, and the Qing kept a customs station here.