Uqturpan
English
Alternative forms
- Uchturpan, Uch Turfan, Uch-Turfan, Uch-turfan, Ush Turfan
Etymology
From Uyghur ئۇچتۇرپان (uchturpan).
Proper noun
Uqturpan
- A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
- 1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), The Silk Road, Past and Present (丝绸之路今昔), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 717480364, page 235:
- I met Yao Jichen of the county cultural hall, who had gone west along this road and discovered a beacon tower of Han times at a spot near Bedel Mountain Pass fifty kilometers west of Wushi (Uqturpan) County.
- 2017, Alan Taylor, “Scenes From Xinjiang”, in The Atlantic:
- Students from ethnic minorities give the Young Pioneer's salute to their teacher (right) at a primary school in Uqturpan county, Xinjiang on May 3, 2012.
- 2019, “No casualties reported in Xinjiang earthquake”, in Li Xia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 30 September 2021, retrieved 9 May 2020:
- No casualties or economic loss have been reported after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit Uqturpan County of Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 1:29 p.m. Sunday.
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Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Wushi, Wu-shih
Translations
county
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