Khorgas

English Khorgas Port Control Point Alternative forms en Chorgos, en Gorgos, en Horgos, en Khorgos Etymology From en ru Хо́ргас or ru Хо́ргос, from en ug قورغاس or en kk قورعاس or kk Қорғас. Proper noun en county-level city Kazakh autonomous prefecture/Ili ar/Xinjiang c/China on the border with Kazakhstan. en 2005 Hugh Pope Sons of the Conquerors https://archive.org/details/sonsofconquerors0000pope/ w:Overlook Duckworth 1-58567-641-1 2004066268 58455712 176–177 https://archive.org/details/sonsofconquerors0000pope/page/176/ 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. en 2010 w:Bijan Omrani Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road https://archive.org/details/asiaoverlandtale0000omra/ Odyssey Books 978-962-217-811-3 1023185445 497 https://archive.org/details/asiaoverlandtale0000omra/page/497/ 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 Khorgas, the current method of travel for this excursion is by bus or private jeep. en 2018 w:Bruno Maçães Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order https://books.google.com/books?id=H1RnDwAAQBAJ w:Yale University Press 978-0-300-23593-7 2018935099 1026238833 26975056M 129 At Fuyun I meet an employee of Boshihao Electronic, a firm registered in the southern city of Shenzhen, which is planning to open its robot production workshop in Khorgas and expects to start exporting service robots to Europe in 2017.[...]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 pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post. en A town in Kazakhstan on the border with Xinjiang, China. en 2018 w:Bruno Maçães Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order https://books.google.com/books?id=H1RnDwAAQBAJ w:Yale University Press 978-0-300-23593-7 2018935099 1026238833 26975056M 129 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 pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post. on Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Huoerguosi, en Huo'erguosi Translations a dual town in Xinjiang, China and Kazakhstan Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 霍爾果斯 Huò'ěrguǒsī Japanese: ja コルガス Korugasu Kazakh: kk Қорғас Manchu: mnc ᡥᠣᡵᡤᠣᠰ Russian: ru Хо́ргос m, ru Хо́ргас m Uyghur: ug قورغاس Cyrillic: ug Қорғас Anagrams en aghkors Gorkhas