Khorgas

Proper noun

Khorgas

1. A county-level city of Ili, Xinjiang autonomous region, China on the border with Kazakhstan.
   • On the Chinese side of the Khorgas border point, a rash of buildings testified to the sudden spike in China-Kazakhstan exchanges over the border in the 1980s and early 1990s.2005, Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors, Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 176–177
   • This traditionally Kazakh stronghold is lush with farmland, pasture and flanking forest-blanketed mountains — a big change from the usual preconceptions of Xinjiang — and from here you can exit China at Khorgas and travel onward to Almaty. Although a train spur line is being built to Yining and...2010, Bijan Omrani, Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road, Odyssey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 497

   Synonyms:

   Huoerguosi

2. A town in Kazakhstan on the border with Xinjiang, China.
   • This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
     When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in...[2018, Bruno Maçães, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129