Khorgos
Khorgos, officially known as Korgas, is a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It straddles the country's border with Kazakhstan; on the Kazakh side of the border is a city also named Horgos in Russian and Korgas in Kazakh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 20,600 residents
- Description: county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Chorgos”, “Gorgos”, “Ho-ch’eng”, “Ho-ch’eng-chen”, “Ho-ch’eng-hsien”, “Ho-erh-kuo-ssu”, “Hoerkwosze”, “Huo-ch’eng”, “Huo-erh-kuo-ssu”, “Huo’er Guosi”, “Kalasu”, “Khorgas”, “Khorges”, “Korfos”, “Korgas”, “Korghas”, “Kung-ch’en”, “Kung-ch’en-ch’eng”, and “Kurgash”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khorgas and Almaliq.
Khorgas
Locality
Photo: Voidvector, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Port of Khorgos is a dry port situated in Khorgos, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, adjacent to the Khorgos River opposite Kazakhstan.The Jinghe–Yining–Khorgos railway, G30 Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway, China National Highway 312, and the China-Central Asia gas pipeline terminate at this location, while National Highway 218 commences here.
Almaliq
Locality
Yining is a city in the Xinjiang Province in China. Though the official Chinese name is Yining, the city is almost never referred to by that name even by the Chinese who live there. Almaliq is situated 10 km east of Khorgos.
Khorgos
- Categories: county-level city, border city, and locality
- Location: Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
44.21652° or 44° 12′ 60″ northLongitude
80.41214° or 80° 24′ 44″ eastPopulation
20,600Elevation
789 metres (2,589 feet)United Nations Location Code
CN HRSOpen location code
8MP26C86+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 4713331912OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Khorgos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قورغاس”
- Azerbaijani: “Xorqos (Çin)”
- Azerbaijani: “Xorqos”
- Chinese: “Huò’ěrguǒsī Shì”
- Chinese: “Khorgas-chhī”
- Chinese: “卡拉苏”
- Chinese: “霍尔果斯”
- Chinese: “霍尔果斯市”
- Chinese: “霍爾果斯”
- Chinese: “霍爾果斯市”
- Dutch: “Khorgos”
- French: “Khorgas”
- French: “Khorgos”
- Gan Chinese: “霍尔果斯市”
- German: “Huò’ěrguǒsī”
- German: “Korgas”
- Italian: “Khorgas”
- Japanese: “コルガス市”
- Kazakh: “Қорғас”
- Kikuyu: “Khorgas”
- Korean: “호르고스시”
- Korean: “훠얼궈쓰시”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Khorgas-chhī”
- Persian: “خورگس”
- Persian: “قورغاس”
- Portuguese: “Khorgos”
- Russian: “Хоргос (Китай)”
- Russian: “Хоргос”
- Spanish: “Horgos”
- Swedish: “Khorgas”
- Turkish: “Korgas”
- Uighur: “K̩orƣas”
- Uighur: “Qarasu”
- Uighur: “Qorghas”
- Uighur: “Қорғас”
- Uighur: “قاراسۇ”
- Uighur: “قورغاس شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “قورغاس”
- Ukrainian: “Хоргос”
- Urdu: “قورغاس”
- Vietnamese: “Khorgas”
- Welsh: “Khorgas”
- Wu Chinese: “霍尔果斯市”
- Yue Chinese: “霍爾果斯”
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