Word.ws English Dictionary

Bortala

Bortala proper noun: a Mongol autonomous prefecture in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Bortala

  1. A Mongol autonomous prefecture in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service in Mandarin at 1300 GMT on 30 October reports that 143d Regimental Farm in Shihhotze Prefecture develops forestry. The same broadcasts reports that 84th Regimental Farm in Poerhtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture restores award system in efforts to promote animal...[1978 November 3 [1978 October 30], “PRC Radio Reports on Activities of Chinese PLA Units”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 214, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...
    • Overall, trade via the new ports of entry on the Xinjiang-Kazakstani border expanded tremendously in the first five years. Six of the new ports are by road: They include[...]The most important route, however, is the railway link that crosses the Chinese-Kazakstani border at Alataw (Ala Shankou), in...1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201

Origin of Bortala

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ (borotal-a).

Questions about Bortala

What does Bortala mean?
Bortala means a Mongol autonomous prefecture in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Bortala?
Bortala is a proper noun.

Words near Bortala in the dictionary

  1. Borsts
  2. Borsuk-Ulam theorem
  3. borszcz
  4. bort
  5. BORTAC
  6. Bortala
  7. bortezomib
  8. Borth
  9. Borth-y-Gest
  10. Borths
  11. Borthwick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bortala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Bortala.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bortala. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.