Taxkorgan

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Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقورغان (tashqorghan).

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Taxkorgan

  1. A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • [1977 November 25 [1977 November 20], “Sinkiang Archeological Find Refutes Soviet Distortion of History”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 227, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page M 2:
      The archeological office of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region museum discovered a large number of ancient tombs in Tashihkuerhkan Tadzhik Autonomous County.]
    • 1990, Great Journeys‎[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
      The wind had smoothed its sand over the nearby mountains, turning them to ghosts. And beyond the snow-mass of Muztagata we entered the valley of Taxkorgan, the last town in the west.
    • 1993, “TAJIK NATIONALITY”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, 中国少数民族风情录 [In Search of China's Minorities]‎[2], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
      Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region.
    • [2003, Ma Rong, “Population Distribution and Relations Among Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies‎[3], East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
      Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik.]
    • 2017 May 10, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters‎[4], archived from the original on 11 May 2017, Environment:
      The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Xinhua said in a microblog post 11 people were also injured.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taxkorgan.
  2. A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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