Tacheng
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Tacheng (), also known as Qoqek (; ) and historically as Chuguchak, is a county-level city and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. The Chinese name "Tacheng" is an abbreviation of "Tarbagatay City" (), a reference to the Tarbagatay Mountains. Tacheng is located in the Dzungarian Basin, some from the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. For a long time it has been a major center for trade with Central Asia because it is an agricultural hub. Its industries include food processing, textiles, and utilities.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tacheng
- Settlement.other_name
- Qoqek, Chuguchak, Tarbagatay
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
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- China Xinjiang Northern#Xinjiang#China
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
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- Location of the city centre in Xinjiang
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.coor_pinpoint
- Tacheng municipal government
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 塔城红楼院内.jpg
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- Location of Tacheng within Xinjiang (China).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Tacheng City (pink) in Tacheng Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Xinjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tacheng
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- شاۋەشەك
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tacheng Prefecture
- Population
- 158098
- Area
- 3991.9
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.xjtcsh.gov.cn
- Image
- 塔尔巴哈台城遗址全.jpg
- Dialing code
- 901
- Licence plate code
- 新G
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- Commons category
- Tacheng
- postal code
- 834700
- different from
- Tacheng Prefecture
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Border crossing
- Demographics
- Administrative divisions
- Climate
- Transportation
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Tacheng (), also known as Qoqek (; ) and historically as Chuguchak, is a county-level city and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. The Chinese name "Tacheng" is an abbreviation of "Tarbagatay City" (), a reference to the Tarbagatay Mountains. Tacheng is located in the Dzungarian Basin, some from the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. For a long time it has been a major center for trade with Central Asia because it is an agricultural hub. Its industries include food processing, textiles, and utilities.
==History== In the mid-19th century, Chuguchak was considered the most important commercial center of Western China after Ghulja (Yining), being an important center of trade between China and Russia, in particular in tea. The city, surrounded by an earth wall, was the residence of two Qing ambans and had a garrison of some 1,000 Chinese soldiers and 1,500 Manchu and Mongol soldiers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tacheng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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