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.Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 186,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Kuqa, Xinjiang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kuche Grand Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kuche.
Kuche
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Kuqa
- Categories: county-level city, county of China, and locality
- Location: Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.7135° or 41° 42′ 49″ northLongitude
82.9544° or 82° 57′ 16″ eastPopulation
186,000Open location code
8MH4PX73+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1941422496OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityWikidata ID
Q1023116
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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: “Kuqa-koān”
- Chinese: “库车”
- Chinese: “库车县”
- Chinese: “库车市”
- Chinese: “庫車”
- Chinese: “庫車市”
- Dutch: “Kuqa”
- Finnish: “Kuqa”
- French: “Comté de Kucha”
- French: “Comté de Kuchar”
- French: “Koutcha”
- French: “Kucha”
- French: “Kuchar”
- French: “Kuqa”
- French: “Xian de Kucha”
- Gan Chinese: “库车县”
- German: “Kucha”
- German: “Kuche”
- German: “Kuqa”
- German: “Kutscha”
- Hungarian: “Kucsa”
- Italian: “Contea di Kuqa”
- Japanese: “クチャ市”
- Japanese: “クチャ県”
- Japanese: “庫車県”
- Kirghiz: “Куча шаары, Түркстан”
- Kirghiz: “Кучар”
- Korean: “쿠차르시”
- Korean: “쿠차시”
- Korean: “쿠처현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kuqa-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiu-tzu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiutzu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiu-che”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiuche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Koutcha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kucha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuchar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuei-tzu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuqa”
- Norwegian: “Kucha”
- Persian: “شهرستان کوچا”
- Persian: “کوچار، سینکیانگ”
- Polish: “Kuqa”
- Russian: “Куча”
- Slovenian: “Kuča”
- Slovenian: “Kuqa”
- Spanish: “Kucha”
- Spanish: “Kuqa”
- Swedish: “Kuchar”
- Turkish: “Kuça”
- Turkish: “Kuçar İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Kucha”
- Uighur: “Kuchar nahiyisi”
- Uighur: “كۇچار شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “كۇچار ناھىيىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Куча”
- Urdu: “کوچا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Kucha”
- Uzbek: “Kuchar”
- Uzbek: “Kusan”
- Vietnamese: “Khố Xa”
- Vietnamese: “Kuchar”
- Vietnamese: “Kuqa”
- Wu Chinese: “库车县”
- Yue Chinese: “庫車”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 库车市人民医院 and Tombs at Youyi Road, Kuqa.
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