Kuche
Kucha was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 103,000 residents
- Description: former country in present-day China
- Also known as: “Chiu-tzu”, “Chiutzu”, “Guizi”, “K’u-ch’e”, “K’u-ch’e-chen”, “K’u-ch’e-hsien”, “Kiu-che”, “Kiuche”, “Kocha”, “Kucha”, “Kuche Xian”, “Kuchel”, “Kuchi”, “Kuchu”, “Kuei-tzu”, “Kueitzu”, “Kuga”, “Kuqa”, “Kvcha”, “Qiuci”, “Qiuzi”, “Xincheng”, and “库车”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kuche Grand Mosque.
Kuche
- Category: historical country
- Location: Aksu Prefecture, Tarim, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kuche” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قوشار”
- Azerbaijani: “Küçə”
- Catalan: “Kieu-tseu”
- Catalan: “Kodjha”
- Catalan: “Kucha”
- Catalan: “Kuqa”
- Catalan: “Kutxa”
- Catalan: “Qiuzi”
- Chinese: “Ku-chu”
- Chinese: “库车县”
- Chinese: “新城”
- Chinese: “龜茲”
- Chinese: “龟兹”
- Chinese: “龟兹国”
- Dutch: “Kucha”
- Dutch: “Kuqa”
- French: “Koutcha”
- French: “Kucha”
- Galician: “Kucha”
- German: “Kuqa”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khiû-tshṳ̀”
- Hebrew: “קוצ’ה”
- Hindi: “कूचा राज्य”
- Hindi: “कूचार”
- Hindi: “कूचीन”
- Hindi: “कूचे”
- Indonesian: “Kucha”
- Italian: “Kucā”
- Italian: “Kuçar”
- Italian: “Kucha”
- Italian: “Kuchar”
- Italian: “Kuche”
- Italian: “Kucheano”
- Italian: “Regno di Kucha”
- Japanese: “亀茲”
- Japanese: “亀茲国”
- Korean: “구자”
- Korean: “구자국”
- Korean: “쿠차 현”
- Korean: “쿠차”
- Korean: “쿠차국”
- Korean: “쿠처”
- Literary Chinese: “龜茲”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kui-chu”
- Persian: “کوچا”
- Portuguese: “Cucha”
- Portuguese: “Cucina”
- Portuguese: “Kucha”
- Russian: “Куча”
- Russian: “Кучар”
- Russian: “Кучэ”
- Slovenian: “Kuča”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوچا”
- Spanish: “Kodjha”
- Spanish: “Kucha”
- Spanish: “Kuqa”
- Spanish: “Qiuzi”
- Swedish: “Kuche”
- Turkish: “Kuçar”
- Uighur: “Yëngisheher”
- Uighur: “Куча”
- Uighur: “كۇچا”
- Uighur: “يېڭىشەھەر”
- Ukrainian: “Куча (держава)”
- Ukrainian: “Куча”
- Venetian: “Kucha”
- Vietnamese: “Khâu Từ”
- Vietnamese: “Quy Từ”
- Western Panjabi: “کوچا راج”
- Yue Chinese: “龜茲”
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