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Taxkorgan

Taxkorgan proper noun: a Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

taxkorgan: a Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China
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Proper noun

Taxkorgan

  1. A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • The archeological office of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region museum discovered a large number of ancient tombs in Tashihkuerhkan Tadzhik Autonomous County.[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...
    • 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.1990, Great Journeys, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35
  2. A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    Synonyms:
    T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan, Tash Kurghan

Examples of Taxkorgan in a sentence

  • 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.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], Beijing: New...
  • 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).2017 May 10, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived...

Synonyms of Taxkorgan

  • T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan
  • Tash Kurghan
  • Tashiku’ergan

Forms of Taxkorgan

alternative formTashkurgan

Origin of Taxkorgan

Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقورغان (tashqorghan).

Words formed from Taxkorgan

Questions about Taxkorgan

What does Taxkorgan mean?
Taxkorgan means a Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Taxkorgan in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Taxkorgan?
Taxkorgan is a proper noun.

Words near Taxkorgan in the dictionary

  1. taxite
  2. taxites
  3. taxitic
  4. taxiway
  5. taxiways
  6. Taxkorgan
  7. Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
  8. taxless
  9. taxlessly
  10. taxlessness
  11. taxlike

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