Huo’er
Hor also known as Huo'er is a township in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture the Tibet Autonomous Region of China; by the shore of Lake Manasarovar. It was placed in the back on the main East-West highway that followed the Silk Road from Lhasa to Kashmir.
- Town
- …lies at an elevation of around 4,600 metres (15,080 feet)
- …was formerly known as “霍尔乡”
- Description: township in Purang County, Ngari, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Hor”“Hor town”“Hor Xiang”“Horchu”“Huo’er Qu”“Huo’er Xiang”“Lejia”“Lhai’gya”“勒甲”“霍尔区”
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Latitude
30.7742° or 30° 46′ 27″ north
Longitude
81.6129° or 81° 36′ 47″ east
Open location code
8M23QJF7+M5
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OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Huo’er” goes by many names.
Hor, TibetMalay
ХорRussian
HorSwedish
Huo’erSwedish
ཧོར་ཤང་།Tibetan
ХорUkrainian
霍尔乡Wu Chinese
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