Kuche
Kucha was an ancient Tocharian 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.
- Type: Locality with 103,000 residents
- Description: former country in present-day China
- Also known as: “Chiu-tzu”, “Chiutzu”, “Cucina”, “Guizi”, “K’u-ch’e”, “K’u-ch’e-chen”, “K’u-ch’e-hsien”, “Khâu Từ”, “Kieu-tseu”, “Kiu-che”, “Kiuche”, “Kocha”, “Kodjha”, “Kucā”, “Kucha”, “Kuchar”, “Kuche Xian”, “Kucheano”, “Kuchel”, “Kuchi”, “Kuchu”, “Kuei-tzu”, “Kueitzu”, “Kuga”, “Kvcha”, “Qiuci”, “Qiuzi”, “Regno di Kucha”, “Xincheng”, “Куча (держава)”, “Кучар”, “Кучэ”, “कूचार”, “कूचीन”, “कूचे”, “구자”, “구자국”, “쿠차 현”, “쿠차국”, “亀茲国”, “库车”, and “龟兹国”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kuche Grand Mosque.
Kuche
- Category: historical country
- Location: Aksu Prefecture, Tarim, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.715° or 41° 42′ 54″ north
Longitude
82.9325° or 82° 55′ 57″ east
Population
103,000
Elevation
1,048 metres (3,438 feet)
IATA airport code
KCA
Open location code
8MH4PW7J+XX
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kuche” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قوشار”
- Azerbaijani: “Küçə”
- Catalan: “Kutxa”
- Chinese: “库车县”
- Chinese: “新城”
- Chinese: “龜茲”
- Chinese: “龟兹”
- Dutch: “Kuqa”
- French: “Koutcha”
- French: “Kucha”
- Galician: “Kucha”
- German: “Kuqa”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khiû-tshṳ̀”
- Hebrew: “קוצ’ה”
- Hindi: “कूचा राज्य”
- Indonesian: “Kucha”
- Italian: “Kucha”
- Japanese: “亀茲”
- Korean: “쿠차”
- Korean: “쿠처”
- Literary Chinese: “龜茲”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ku-chu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kui-chu”
- Persian: “کوچا”
- Portuguese: “Cucha”
- Russian: “Куча”
- Slovenian: “Kuča”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوچا”
- Spanish: “Kucha”
- Swedish: “Kuche”
- Turkish: “Kuçar”
- Uighur: “Yëngisheher”
- Uighur: “Куча”
- Uighur: “كۇچا”
- Uighur: “يېڭىشەھەر”
- Ukrainian: “Куча”
- Venetian: “Kucha”
- Vietnamese: “Quy Từ”
- Western Panjabi: “کوچا راج”
- Yue Chinese: “龜茲”
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