Khorgos
Korgas, Khorgas, Horgos | |
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Downtown Khorgos, with the Dzungarian Alatau visible in the background Khorgos Gate on the China–Kazakhstan border | |
  Khorgos Location in Xinjiang  Khorgos Khorgos (Xinjiang)  Khorgos Khorgos (China) | |
| Coordinates: 44°12′45″N 80°24′35″E / 44.21250°N 80.40972°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ili |
| Municipal seat | Qarasu Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,675 km2 (647 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 71,466 |
| • Density | 43/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time[a]) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 霍尔果斯市 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 霍爾果斯市 | ||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | قورغاس شەھىرى | ||||||
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| Russian name | |||||||
| Russian | Хоргос | ||||||
| Romanization | Khorgos | ||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||
| Kazakh | قورعاس قالاسى Қорғас қаласы Qorğas qalası | ||||||
Khorgos (from Russian: Хоргос), officially known as Korgas[2] (from Kazakh: قورعاس), is a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It straddles the country's border with Kazakhstan;[3] on the Kazakh side of the border is a city also named Horgos in Russian and Korgas in Kazakh.
Khorgos area is a hub of the New Eurasian Land Bridge, 200 km from the Alataw Pass, the historically important Dzungarian Gate, with a cross-border visa-free special economic zone for trade and shopping (ICBC), a dry port for transporting goods and two new cities, one on either side of the border.[4][5]: 24
- ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ The official spelling according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4
- ^ Reid Standish (1 October 2019). "China's Path Forward Is Getting Bumpy". theatlantic.com. 2nd paragraph of article: The Atlantic. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
Straddling the Kazakh-Chinese border, a collection of cranes, railways, and buildings rises out of a barren stretch of desert surrounded by towering mountains to form the backbone of the Khorgos Gateway
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "Khorgos and Zharkent travel guide". Caravanistan. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Curtis, Simon; Klaus, Ian (2024). The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300266900.
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