China
SW China
Tibet

Huo’er

Hor also known as Huo'er is a township in Burang County, the of ; by the shore of . It was placed in the back on the main East-West highway that followed the Silk Road from to .
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: township in Purang County, Ngari, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Hor”, “Hor Xiang”, “Horchu”, “Huo’er Qu”, “Huo’er Xiang”, “Lejia”, “Lhai’gya”, “勒甲”, and “霍尔区”

Huo’er

Latitude
30.7747° or 30° 46′ 29″ north
Longitude
81.6157° or 81° 36′ 57″ east
Elevation
4,596 metres (15,079 feet)
Open location code
8M23QJF8+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3791380286
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8745929
Wiki­data ID
Q1627817
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Huo’er” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Huo’er”
  • Chinese: “霍尔”
  • Chinese: “霍尔乡”
  • Chinese: “霍尔镇”
  • Dutch: “Hor, Tibet”
  • Gan Chinese: “霍尔乡”
  • German: “Hor (Burang)”
  • German: “Hor”
  • Malay: “Hor, Tibet”
  • Russian: “Хор”
  • Swedish: “Hor”
  • Swedish: “Huo’er”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོར་ཤང་།”
  • Ukrainian: “Хор”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍尔乡”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Huo’er”. Photo: Nicolai Bangsgaard, CC BY 2.0.