Khorgas
English
Alternative forms
- Chorgos, Gorgos, Horgos, Khorgos
Etymology
From Russian Хо́ргас (Xórgas) or Хо́ргос (Xórgos), from Uyghur قورغاس (qorghas) or Kazakh قورعاس or Қорғас (Qorğas).
Proper noun
Khorgas
- A county-level city in Ili, Xinjiang, China on the border with Kazakhstan.
- 2005, Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors, Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, LCCN 2004066268, OCLC 58455712, pages 176-177:
- On the Chinese side of the Khorgas border point, a rash of buildings testified to the sudden spike in China-Kazakhstan exchanges over the border in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- 2010, Bijan Omrani, Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road, Odyssey Books, →ISBN, OCLC 1023185445, page 497:
- This traditionally Kazakh stronghold is lush with farmland, pasture and flanking forest-blanketed mountains — a big change from the usual preconceptions of Xinjiang — and from here you can exit China at Khorgas and travel onward to Almaty. Although a train spur line is being built to Yining and Khorgas, the current method of travel for this excursion is by bus or private jeep.
- 2018, Maçães, Bruno, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2018935099, OCLC 1026238833, OL 26975056M, page 129:
- At Fuyun I meet an employee of Boshihao Electronic, a firm registered in the southern city of Shenzhen, which is planning to open its robot production workshop in Khorgas and expects to start exporting service robots to Europe in 2017.[...]This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Khorgas.
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- A town in Kazakhstan on the border with Xinjiang, China.
- [2018, Maçães, Bruno, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2018935099, OCLC 1026238833, OL 26975056M, page 129:
- This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post.]
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Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Huoerguosi, Huo'erguosi
Translations
a dual town in Xinjiang, China and Kazakhstan
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Anagrams
- Gorkhas