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)

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)