Tashkurgan
Tashkurgan is a town in the far west of Xinjiang Province in China. Its population is mostly ethnically Tajik. The town is near the Pakistani and Tajik borders.
- Type: Town with 8,920 residents
- Description: town in China
- Also known as: “P’u-li”, “P’u-li-hsien”, “Sarikol”, “Sariqöl”, “Shítouchéng”, “T’a-shih-ho-erh-han”, “T’a-shih-k’u-erh-kan”, “T’a-shih-k’u-erh-kan-ch’eng”, “T’a-shih-k’u-erh-kan-t’a-chi-k’o-tsu-tzu-chih-ch’ü”, “T’a-shih-k’u-erh-kan-t’a-chi-k’o-tsu-tzu-chih-hsien”, “Tachkourghan”, “Tash Kurghan”, “Tash Qurghan”, “Tashiku’ergan”, “Tăshíkù’ĕrgān”, “Tashkorgan”, “Tashkurgan Town”, “Tashqorghan”, “Taxkorgan Tajik Zizhixian”, “Taxkorgan Tujik”, “Taxkurgan”, and “塔什库尔干镇 تاشقۇرغان بازىرى”
Tashkurgan
- Categories: town of China, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Kashgar, Tarim, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.7708° or 37° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
75.2281° or 75° 13′ 41″ east
Population
8,920
Elevation
3,103 metres (10,180 feet)
IATA airport code
HQL
Open location code
8J9QQ6CH+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tashkurgan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاشكورغان”
- Asturian: “Tashkurgan”
- Basque: “Tashkurgan”
- Bengali: “তাসকুরগান”
- Catalan: “Taxkorgan”
- Cebuano: “Taşqorğan”
- Cebuano: “Taxkorgan”
- Chinese: “塔什库尔干”
- Chinese: “塔什库尔干镇”
- Czech: “Taškurgan”
- Danish: “Tashkurgan”
- Dutch: “Taxkorgan”
- Estonian: “Taxkorgan”
- Finnish: “Tashkurgan”
- French: “Tashkurgan”
- Gan Chinese: “塔什库尔干镇”
- German: “Stätte der Steinernen Stadt”
- German: “Taschkurgan”
- Greek: “Τασκουργκάν”
- Greek: “Τάσκουργκαν”
- Gujarati: “તાશ્કુરગન”
- Hindi: “ताशक़ुरग़ान”
- Indonesian: “Tashkurgan”
- Italian: “Tashkurgan”
- Japanese: “タシュクルガン鎮”
- Kannada: “ತಷ್ಕುರ್ಗನ್”
- Korean: “타스쿠르간”
- Latvian: “Taškorgana”
- Lithuanian: “Taškurganas”
- Malay: “Tashkurgan”
- Marathi: “ताशकुरगन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tashkurgan”
- Ossetian: “Ташкурган”
- Persian: “تاشکورگان تاون”
- Persian: “تاشکورگان”
- Polish: “Taxkorgan”
- Russian: “Ташкурган”
- Sinhala: “ටශ්කුරුගන්”
- Spanish: “Tashkurgán”
- Swedish: “Tashkurgan”
- Tajik: “Tāškurgān”
- Tamil: “டேஷ்குர்கண்”
- Telugu: “తష్ కుర్ గాన్”
- Thai: “ทาชคอร์กัน”
- Turkish: “Tashkurgan”
- Turkish: “Taşkurgan”
- Uighur: “Tashqorghan”
- Uighur: “Taşqorğan”
- Uighur: “Taxk̩orƣan”
- Uighur: “Ташқорған”
- Uighur: “تاشقورغان بازىرى”
- Uighur: “تاشقورغان”
- Uighur: “تاشقۇرغان”
- Ukrainian: “Ташкурган”
- Urdu: “تاشقورغان”
- Urdu: “تاشکورگن”
- Uzbek: “Toshqo‘rg‘on”
- Vietnamese: “Tashkurgan”
- Welsh: “Tashkurgan”
- Western Panjabi: “تاشقورغان”
- Wu Chinese: “塔什库尔干镇”
- “Tāškurgān”
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