Tacheng
Tarbagatay, Chuguchak, Qoqek | |
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 "Ruins in Chuguchak" by Vasily Vereshchagin (1869) | |
.png) Location of Tacheng City (pink) in Tacheng Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Tacheng Location of the city centre in Xinjiang  Tacheng Tacheng (Xinjiang)  Tacheng Tacheng (China) | |
| Coordinates (Tacheng municipal government): 46°45′06″N 82°59′13″E / 46.7517°N 82.9869°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Tacheng |
| Municipal seat | Heping Subdistrict |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,991.9 km2 (1,541.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 158,098 |
| • Density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard[a]) |
| Postal code | 834700 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 塔城 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 缺切克 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 楚呼楚 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 塔尔巴哈台 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 塔爾巴哈台 | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Тарвагатай | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠲᠠᠷᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠢ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur | چۆچەك | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | شاۋەشەك قالاسى Шәуешек қаласы Şäueşek qalasy | ||||||||||
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| Daur | Тарбгьти Tarbgti | ||||||||||
Tacheng[2] (Chinese: 塔城), also known as Tarbagatay, Chuguchak[3] or Qoqek,[4] is a county-level city and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. The Chinese name "Tacheng" is an abbreviation of "Tarbagatay City", a reference to the Tarbagatay Mountains. Tacheng is located in the Dzungarian Basin, some 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. For a long time it has been a major center for trade with Central Asia because it is an agricultural hub. Its industries include food processing, textiles, and utilities.
- ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ The official spelling according to 中国地名录. Beijing: SinoMaps Press (中国地图出版社). 1997. ISBN 7-5031-1718-4.
- ^ Lumley, John (1869), Report by Mr. Lumley, Her Majesty's Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburgh, on the Tea Trade of Russia, dated May 4, 1867. [Extracted from "Commercial reports" presented to Parliament, July 1867.], p. 73
- ^ Kraus, Charles (June 2019). "Laying Blame for Flight and Fight: Sino-Soviet Relations and the 'Yi–Ta' Incident in Xinjiang, 1962". The China Quarterly. 238: 504. doi:10.1017/S0305741018001789. ISSN 0305-7410.
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