Huocheng
Uighur name | |
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Arabic-Persian (Kona Yeziⱪ) : | قورغاس ناھىيىسى |
Latin (Yengi Yeziⱪ) : | Ⱪorƣas naⱨiyisi |
Cyrillic ( Soviet Union ): | Қорғас наһийиси |
official notation ( PRCh ): | Huocheng |
Chinese name | |
Abbreviation : | 霍城县 |
Transcription in Pinyin : | Huòchéng Xiàn |
Huocheng ( Kazakh قورعاس اۋدانى, Qorğas Awdanı ) is a district of the Kazakh Ili Autonomous District in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China .
Its main town is the large community of Shuiding (水 定 镇).
In 1999 it had 337,517 inhabitants. On June 26, 2014, part of the area of the district was spun off and the independent city of Korgas was founded on it.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 3 ' N , 80 ° 52' E