Kuqa
Kuqa is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is located in the center of Xinjiang, where the northern limit of the Tarim Basin meets the southern foot of the Tian Shan mountains.
- Type: City with 186,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Chiu-tzu”, “Chiutzu”, “Comté de Kucha”, “Comté de Kuchar”, “Khố Xa”, “Kiu-che”, “Kiuche”, “Koutcha”, “Kuça”, “Kuch”, “Kuchar nahiyisi”, “Kuche”, “Kuchu”, “Kuchu City”, “Kuei-tzu”, “Kuqa, Xinjiang”, “Kusan”, “Kutscha”, “Xian de Kucha”, “クチャ県”, “库车”, “库车市 كۇچار”, and “庫車県”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kuche Grand Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kuche.
Kuqa
- Categories: county-level city of China, county of China, and locality
- Location: Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41.7135° or 41° 42′ 49″ north
Longitude
82.9544° or 82° 57′ 16″ east
Population
186,000
Open location code
8MH4PX73+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kuqa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوقا”
- Basque: “Kuqa Konderria”
- Catalan: “Kuqa”
- Chinese: “库车市”
- Chinese: “庫車市”
- Dutch: “Kuqa”
- Finnish: “Kuqa”
- French: “Kucha”
- Gan Chinese: “库车县”
- German: “Kucha”
- German: “Kuqa”
- Hungarian: “Kucsa”
- Italian: “Contea di Kuqa”
- Japanese: “クチャ市”
- Kirghiz: “Куча шаары, Түркстан”
- Kirghiz: “Кучар”
- Korean: “쿠차르시”
- Korean: “쿠차시”
- Korean: “쿠처현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kuqa-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kucha”
- Norwegian: “Kucha”
- Persian: “شهرستان کوچا”
- Persian: “کوچار”
- Polish: “Kuqa”
- Russian: “Куча”
- Slovenian: “Kuča”
- Spanish: “Kucha”
- Spanish: “Kuqa”
- Swedish: “Kuchar”
- Turkish: “Kuçar İlçesi”
- Uighur: “كۇچار شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “كۇچار ناھىيىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Куча”
- Urdu: “کوچا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Kuchar”
- Vietnamese: “Kuchar”
- Wu Chinese: “库车县”
- Yue Chinese: “庫車”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Yéngisheher and Saqsaq.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: 库车市人民医院 and Tombs at Youyi Road, Kuqa.
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