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Karakax
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English
Karakax County
thumb|Map including Karakax He / K'a-la-k'a-shih Ho (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1983)
Alternative forms
en Qaraqash, en Karakash
Etymology
Borrowed from en ug قاراقاش.
Pronunciation
en /kɑɹ.ə.kɑʃ/ /kɛ(ə)ɹ.ə.kæʃ/
kärä′käsh′Kara Kash or Qara Qash 911 1
Proper noun
en county prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China.
en 28 Dec 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/29/xinjiang-attack-four-terrorists-and-one-bystander-killed-says-china Xinjiang attack: four 'terrorists' and one bystander killed, says China w:The Guardian https://web.archive.org/web/20161229045643/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/29/xinjiang-attack-four-terrorists-and-one-bystander-killed-says-china December 29, 2016 The Xinjiang government said in a short statement on its main news website that the incident occurred just before 5pm in Karakax county, deep in southern Xinjiang’s Uighur heartland.
en Jan 5, 2017 Christian Shepherd China investigates party officials in restive Xinjiang for 'discipline breaches' Nick Macfie https://web.archive.org/web/20170105150606/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption-idUSKBN14P0B5 05 January 2017 w:Reuters World News The Xinjiang Discipline Inspection Commission announced the investigation into Hu Jun, 49, party secretary of Karakax county in south Xinjiang, and Zhang Jinbiao, 53, party secretary of Hotan, the prefecture where Karakax is located.
en 2019-07-15 Across China: More Xinjiang households benefit from natural gas project mingmei w:Xinhua News Agency https://web.archive.org/web/20190715115446/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/15/c_138228543.htm July 15, 2019 To improve the local people's living standards, the natural gas project was launched in 2010 and has been operating since 2013. So far, more than 3,000 km of pipes have been installed, providing natural gas to 42 counties and cities, and benefiting over 4 million residents in south Xinjiang."It saved me a lot of money," said Hawanisahan Jelili, who lived in Karakax County in Hotan Prefecture, adding her family would spend nearly 3,500 yuan for heating by burning coal in winter, but it was reduced to 2,000 yuan after natural gas pipes were built in the county in 2016.
en 18 February 2020 https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-ARUBATODAY-2020-02-18/ Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion Aruba Today A10 https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-ARUBATODAY-2020-02-18/page/n9/ The detainees listed come from Karakax County, a traditional settlement on the edge of Xinjiang's Taklamakan desert where more than 97 percent of its roughly 650,000 residents are Uighur.
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en town county/Karakax prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China.
en 1997 Peter Neville-Hadley China the Silk Routes https://archive.org/details/china00pete/ w:Cadogan Guides w:Globe Pequot Press 1-86011-052-5 37712573 294 https://archive.org/details/china00pete/page/294/ After 80km and 1½ hours there is finally some green at the turn-off to Píshān, but the desert soon reclaims the road's boundaries, threatening the road itself, until Karakax (Mòyù), about 25km before Khotan, where there are tidy cultivated fields of corn, cotton and rice.
en 2017 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716705/ Risk factors for human papillomavirus infection prevalent among Uyghur women from Xinjiang, China Guzhalinuer Abulizi; Hua Li; Patiman Mijiti; Tangnuer Abulimiti; Jing Cai; Jie Gao; Dandan Meng; Reyihanguli Abula; Tunishahan Abudereyimu; Anarguli Aizezi; You Lin Qiao w:United States National Library of Medicine 6000 women were recruited for this study from the Karakax County (Karakax town and Zawa, Yawa, Karsay and Kuiya villages) of the Hotan Prefecture (Xinjiang, China). All the participants provided informed consent. The eligible women were aged between 21–60 years, sexually active, not pregnant and had no history of diagnosed CIN, cervical cancer or hysterectomy.
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Karakash River
en 2004 w:Gyurme Dorje Footprint Tibet https://archive.org/details/footprinttibet0000dorj/ w:Footprint Travel Guides 3rd 1 903471 30 3 474411896 397 https://archive.org/details/footprinttibet0000dorj/page/397/ The road then descends into the valley of the Karakax River, where a detour cuts through to Khotan at the southern extremity of the Taklamakhan Desert on the Silk Route.
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Synonyms
from Mandarin Chinese en Moyu, en Mo-yü, en Kalakashi, en K'a-la-k'a-shih
Translations
county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 墨玉 Mòyù, cmn 喀拉喀什 Kālākāshí
Japanese: ja
Manchu: mnc ᡥᠠᡵᠠ ᡥᠠᡧᡳ
Uyghur: ug قاراقاش
References