Koxtag

English

Map including Koxtag (K'o-shih-t'a-ko) (DMA, 1980)

Alternative forms

• Qoshtagh

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur قوشتاغ (qoshtagh).

Proper noun

Koxtag

1. A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
   • 2020 February, Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino, “The Not-So-Terrorist Conflict: Analytical Deception and Political Delusion in China’s Framing of Uyghur-related Violent Events”, in Numéro‎^[1], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 March 2021:

     Non-official narratives of the incident offered a more nuanced picture of who integrated what the Chinese state media labelled a 'violent terrorist group', and how events unfolded in the township of Koxtag, in Guma County (Hotan Prefecture)

   • 2021 February 19, “Villagers shake off poverty by breeding donkeys in China's Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on February 19, 2021:

     Ghulam Tuniyaz (2nd L) and his family members pose with donkey milk at Jiayi Nagute Village, Koxtag Township, Pishan County, in Hotan of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 4, 2021.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kuoshitage, Kuoshi Tage, K'o-shih-t'a-ko

Translations

town in Pishan, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闊什塔格／阔什塔格 (Kuòshítǎgé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قوشتاغ (qoshtagh)