Uqturpan

alternative Uchturpan · alternative Uch Turfan · alternative Uch-Turfan · alternative Uch-turfan · alternative Ush Turfan

1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   Students from ethnic minorities give the Young Pioneer's salute to their teacher (right) at a primary school in Uqturpan county, Xinjiang on May 3, 2012.

   2017, Alan Taylor, “Scenes From Xinjiang”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 08 May 2017

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   I met Yao Jichen of the county cultural hall, who had gone west along this road and discovered a beacon tower of Han times at a spot near Bedel Mountain Pass fifty kilometers west of Wushi (Uqturpan) County.

   The Silk Road, Past and Present

   1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 235

   Synonyms: Wushi, Wu-shih