sentences:  Hoxtolgay is an oasis town with an area of 6684 km² and a population of 22,000.According to the local government, the town's population consists of 8,426 urban residents (i.e., domiciled in the town proper), 4,914 rural residents (i.e., in the rural areas under the town's administration), 4,950 members of the military, and 3,650 floating population (i.e., temporary residents, officially domiciled elsewhere).Situated in Gurbantünggüt Desert, 30 miles WNW of a point listed as the farthest point from the sea (at ) by the "Guinness Book of World Records", Hoxtolgay may qualify as the town most remote from any (sea) coastline, roughly 2646 kilometres from the Arctic Ocean and a similar distance from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.