Huocheng

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Uighur name
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
Location of Huocheng (pink) County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous District

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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Footnotes

  1. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html

Coordinates: 44 ° 3 '  N , 80 ° 52'  E